God's Promises or Mine?

Have you ever said "I will....." whatever it might be and then didn't do it? Have you made promises that you haven't kept for one reason or another?

We all have. I know people that that is all they do. Promise. But never keep what they do promise. Why do they do that and then don't follow through?

Their intentions may be good. But then again, maybe not so much. Maybe they just say that to get someone off their back. Though there are times we can't keep our promises.

Maybe, maybe, maybe.

Life is full of the unexpected. Whether the unexpected are good things, or when they are...not so good.  Because Satan is always in there to try and trip us, sometimes things just go wrong. stop working and need to be replaced.

Sometimes, we can be going down some path in the walk of life, and stumble over a stone that Satan has thrown in the way. A very small stone can make us stumble. It can make us get off the path completely and sometimes we don't know how to get back on that path.

Walking through this life can be like walking down a dark street with a flashlight. But a flashlight can be undependable. The bulb can break if we drop it. Or the batteries can give out and need to be replaced. If that happens while we are out walking in the dark, it can be scary when we can't see where we are going.

People who are blind know that feeling of absolute darkness. They are in it all the time. Surrounded by it. What have they got to depend on? No flashlight is going to help them. However, science has given them tools whereby they can get through life without their sight.

There is one person that we can count on. Every second of every day, of every hour, month and year. For all of someone's life to those that are committed to him.

God. Yes, God, always keeps his promises. Perhaps not in our time. Perhaps not when we demand it. But in his time, in his way, and sometimes when we least expect it.

Those without him are like a blind person that cannot see.  And we all are until we see the need for him. And it is at that point that God hands us his flashlight,-his word so that we have the tools we need to use to get through this life as he intended all along.

 Isaiah 119:105 says, "Thy word is a lamp until my feet and a light unto my path." And without it, we are going to stumble through life over the stones that cross our paths, not knowing what to do or how to stay on it.

Sometimes in life, even with God's word, we don't know, but God will always be with us, to guide us as long as we use his word and our faith to stay where we should be. That is why its there. As our flashlight into the darkness, leading us safely through with his light But as a flashlight that needs to be turned on in order to be used, so do we need to open God's word, learn it and hide it in our hearts so that it can guide us through our darkest times.


January 18.2019 Promise: I will not forge my promises because I am  a merciful G0d

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