It’s easy to punch holes in the promises of God.
We pray, often in desperation, and lay our needs out before God. We trust that he loves us as his very special creation, and that he desires to wrap us in his arms, just as we would our own children.
We find his promise, and we know it to be true. God’s assurances come to us in the Word, or in a circumstance, or even in the spoken voice of the Father, coming to us in the quiet moments when we push the world aside to listen to him.
His promise is a rock that is immovable, one we can cling to, and we trust it implicitly.
Then nothing happens.
“What goes, God,” we cry. “Nothing’s taking place. Are you even there?”
We want to believe so much that we begin to excuse God, to find the answers we need in the circumstances around us, even if those circumstances are not our answer from God.
We’re not the only one who’s felt that way, who’s tried to find the promises of God in other ways, who’s tried to explain God’s fulfilled promise with our own version of how it’s come into play.
God doesn’t need us to work things out for him, to explain to the world how he’s working, and to find excuses for him. God doesn’t need us to fault his promises and accept less than what he’s said he’ll do.
Abram was to become the father of three great religions, but in Genesis 15, he was still a man without an heir. How could he become what God promised? So, Abram punched a hole in the promise of God.
Genesis 15:3 tells us:
“And Abram said, ‘Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.’ ”
“Whoa, small human,” God cajoled in the next verse. “Let’s get back on track here. I said I’d give you children as the stars in the heavens. Count them in the sky. Expect it. I promised.”
Then the Word tells us Abram’s belief in God’s promise was his leap from unrighteousness into righteousness. It wasn’t his good works, but his trust in God to do all that he said he’d do.
Abraham found fault with God, and God set him once again on the path to salvation. We are the same. When we begin to doubt the promises of God, we are straddling the precipice of our salvation, and if we doubt too long, we’ll fall right off.
Even singing in the choir won’t be enough.
What God wants is for us to believe in him. Then, as Abram did, we will become righteous in the sight of our almighty Father God.
The one thing we can do to bring about our salvation is to believe in the promises of God as written in his Holy Word.
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Originally Published 10-6-15 in Hope