God Promised

DEVOTION HEBREWS
GOD PROMISED

 Heb 6:13-15 13 When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, 14 saying, "I will surely bless you and give you many descendants." 15 And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised. NIV 

 When God promises, it is promised. It may not be so when us mere mortals make a promise, for all too often we find those promises broken. But that is not so with God. He cannot break His promise. He will never break His promise. There is no doubt about that.

 Heb 6:16-20 16 Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. 17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. 18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek. NIV


 Yes, this is a strange way to do a devotion, but this thought, this promise is explained in full within the rest of this statement made by God. Where would be if we did not have an anchor for our soul, that is firm and secure? Our soul would be wandering around in a wilderness, lost, without direction, and without hope. There is nothing to cling to except self, and self cannot enter the inner sanctuary behind the curtain. We have an anchor for our soul; we have Jesus Christ as our anchor. God promised us that if we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior we would be saved from His wrath. That is a promise and He will keep that promise, just because He is God and there is none greater than Him. So we have fled the life of sin, we have departed from the city of darkness, the place of the dead. We have packed our bags, loaded them up and headed out for the bridge to cross over to the city of light and life. But as we crossed that bridge, the cross of Christ, He unloaded all our baggage, lightened our load, and gave us freedom from death. He accepted us into the new city of light and life and offered us a promise. He said that if we remain in Him we could even enter behind the curtain into the inner sanctuary, into the very presence of God, that because we trusted in the cross and left that dark city we had direct access to God. He promised we would live forever in this new city, without fear. We have hope beyond hope, because God has promised it.