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)
(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)