The Certainty of God’s Promise
Hebrews 6:13-20 “When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, saying ‘I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.’”
Hope
For everything to stay in shape, it needs to be sustained. For instance a brand new car; the car will be well taken care of and serviced.
Where we have read, God makes a promise to Abraham. Abraham’s hopes were based upon this promise. What is hope? Hope is a feeling of expectation – things that you long for – God teaches us of hope and expectations; the desire for something to happen believing and having faith in it. Whatever it is that one might hope for, it will surely come to pass sometime - it could probably take a week or years – even so the believer should keep faith.
When a woman is pregnant, we say that she is expecting. A woman of faith knows that the outcome will be great. Two weeks of pregnancy does not pass and already she is in despair. So now God reminds us that we should always be expecting.
Verse 13 further on explains that we should be bold and remain courageous while we expect from the Lord. We should remain courageous because fear is an enemy of faith, so is doubt. Hope does not go alone, it is led by faith. For hope to be sustainable it needs faith. Especially after praying, we always should apply faith. If one did not have hope then our faith could be easily shaken.
Faith
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Abraham kept hoping that something will happen. This means that he had faith and believed in God’s promises.
Many of us pray for things to happen, we start by having great hope for these prayers to come to pass. However, as time goes we fail to recognize accomplished-prayers and we conclude that our hopes are forlorn. We forget about what we used to pray for because we have given-up. In some cases, some people say that miracles were last seen in the times of Moses.
If Moses and Joshua did not have hope to see Canaan, Israelites would not have experienced some of the great miracles of God.
Since we have so much hope in God, He always delivers and never disappoints. My question is: can He have hope in us? Can we deliver? Can we not disappoint?
Those who hope upon the Lord will remain free, courageous and glorious!!!
Recorded by Kabelo Badimo
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