Tuesday, January 17, 2017

THE HEARTBREAK OF PROMISES

Promise is a very strong word that can sometimes be easily uttered yet very hard to fulfill. It's a silent covenant and when broken it's consequences can be subtly dire, having emotional, physical and sometimes spiritual afflictions.
Promise is a debt that must be paid.

At one time in our life's, we've made promises to someone with the intent of fulfilling but rather finding it difficult to meet up to our words due to unknown or unprecedented circumstances.

I've learnt heavily from my mistakes of past uttered promises that were left unfulfilled, so recently I'm very careful to utter any words of promise no matter how am certain of being capable of executing it, this prevents or salvages a situation of being stuck in quagmire of failed and unfulfilled promises.

There's a veritable, divine and eternal promise that will never fail humanity, which is the promise of our Lord Jesus Christ, of an ever present re-assuring hope and mercy of salvation which guarantees eternal life. 
(2 Peter 1:4 , Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:19)

Life may be full of disappointments resulting from broken promises but our anchor of hope will always lie in our faith in the Lord, which strengthens us through the storms of life and make us overcomers and conquerors while moving ahead from past mistakes to start a better day and live to affect humanity with our destined light radiating the glory of God and fulfilling our promised destinies.
(Isaiah 40:29-31, Romans 8:37-39, Romans 6:23)

THE CONSUMING FIRE

The consuming fire is a divine fire. The word of God is a two edged sword. It can fight for peace and fight for war. Beware of the consuming...