I Promise.

“Look toward heaven and number the stars…” – Gen 15:5

God makes promises. He makes a lot of promises. He’s always been that way – promising extraordinary things to his people from the very beginning.

But making a promise is one thing. Keeping it is quite another.

Abraham knew what it was like to feel a disconnect between a promise made and a promise kept. God had promised to make a great nation out of him, but here he was in his old age without offspring of his own. Abraham had the promise, but where was the fulfillment?

Abraham’s circumstances caused him to take his eyes off the promise. He was so concerned about the present that he began to doubt that God would keep His end of the deal.

Abraham isn’t all that unique in that, is he? How often do you find yourself so completely emersed in the drudgery of the present that you lose sight of the promises that God has made to you? I’d be willing to bet that every now and then your present circumstances obscure God’s promises leaving you feeling like you are stumbling around in the dark looking for a way out.

Abraham needed a reminder. So do you.

“Look toward heaven and number the stars…”

It was as if God said, “Abraham, look up. Why do you doubt me? Look up from the present and look to the future that I have in store for you. Abraham, don’t let your circumstances make you lose sight of the stars.”

Growing up in the city, stars were something I’d see at the planetarium – and that was about it. Leaving the city, and roughing it in the mountains made me realize how much I was missing. Light pollution had taken the night sky from me. Man-made light had drowned out the brilliant stars of heaven and had replaced the dazzling blanket of galaxies with the washed-out pallor of a gray haze that hung around the city like a fog.

What’s keeping you from seeing the stars? What is it about your present that drowns out the stars of heaven leaving you in the dark? What is the pollution that is keeping you from seeing the promises that God has made to you?

Whatever it is, Jesus is here for it. That’s His promise to you.

He’s here to strip away all the noise, the brokenness, the confusion. He’s here to lift your eyes to the stars. He’s here to fill you with the certainty that there is not one promise that has been made that will not be kept.

Abraham believed it. You do the same.

Let’s talk more about God’s promises. Come to Bible class starting August 28th, and learn more about what God has in store for you.

Jesus will be there. He’ll be there for you – I promise.