“And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Now it was not written for his sake alone...But for us also...”
(Rom. 4:19-24)
I have noticed in reading through God’s Word that his promises can come at what we’d consider the most inopportune of times. That is, they are not made during the brightness of the day but rather the darkness of the night and, I might add, as the scripture records, “[a] darkness which may be felt.” It seems our God prefers impossible situations to the possible. The latter falls under one of our attributes. He waits till the time it is humanly impossible, then makes the promise that He will do the impossible!
As in Abraham and Sarah’s case in the Old Testament so it was in the New Testament with Zacharias and Elisabeth — they were well past the years of parenting when God promised the birth of John the Baptist. And what of that great promise to Jeremiah in chapter thirty-three, verse three, of his book? It was made while the prophet was in prison. Again, in Acts, God waited until all hope was taken away that Paul and others would be saved in the storm, that God made promise of deliverance. The list goes on.
God’s promise is His Holy pledge! It involves His character. As the old Christian saint said when asked her answer if God broke His Word to her, in promising to save her, “Well, I’d lose my soul, but God would lose His character.” As another has said, “God’s promise and His performance are inseparably linked.” You can depend on God standing true to His promises. As the old missionary said, “His promises are the promises of a gentleman; and a gentleman always keeps his promise.”
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