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Scripture abounds in illustrations of God's faithfulness. More than four thousand years ago He said, "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease" (Genesis 8:22). Every year that comes furnishes a fresh witness to God's fulfillment of this promise.
In Genesis 15 the Lord declares to Abraham, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years... In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here" (Genesis 15:13, 16).
Centuries ran their weary course. Abraham's descendants groaned amid the brick kilns of Egypt. Had God forgotten His promise? No, indeed. Read Exodus 12:41, "At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord's divisions left Egypt."
Through Isaiah the Lord declared, "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). Again centuries passed, "But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman" (Galatians 4:4).
God's Word of Promise is sure. He may be safely relied upon. No one ever yet trusted Him in vain. We find this precious truth expressed almost everywhere in the Scriptures, for His people need to know that faithfulness is an essential part of the Divine character. This is the basis of our confidence in Him.
But it is one thing to accept the faithfulness of God as a Divine truth; it is quite another to act upon it. God has given us many "very great and precious promises" (2 Peter 1:4). But are we really counting on His fulfilling them? Are we actually expecting Him to do for us all that He has said?
-- Arthur W. Pink
In Genesis 15 the Lord declares to Abraham, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years... In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here" (Genesis 15:13, 16).
Centuries ran their weary course. Abraham's descendants groaned amid the brick kilns of Egypt. Had God forgotten His promise? No, indeed. Read Exodus 12:41, "At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord's divisions left Egypt."
Through Isaiah the Lord declared, "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). Again centuries passed, "But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman" (Galatians 4:4).
God's Word of Promise is sure. He may be safely relied upon. No one ever yet trusted Him in vain. We find this precious truth expressed almost everywhere in the Scriptures, for His people need to know that faithfulness is an essential part of the Divine character. This is the basis of our confidence in Him.But it is one thing to accept the faithfulness of God as a Divine truth; it is quite another to act upon it. God has given us many "very great and precious promises" (2 Peter 1:4). But are we really counting on His fulfilling them? Are we actually expecting Him to do for us all that He has said?
-- Arthur W. Pink
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