Promises, promises, promises. There is...
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Promises, promises, promises. There is, of course, a considerable difference between promises made, and promises kept. As human beings we make promises because we want to assure someone that we mean to fulfill an obligation, or that we want to participate in some future activity. The problem is that most people, no matter how well intentioned cannot, for a variety of reasons, keep all their promises. Not so with God. God makes promises and God can keep all promises. God follows through.
Abraham listened to God. He had heard God's covenantal word, how he would have children and how his offspring would be more than the sands of the sea. But, as he grew older, the promises seemed distant. But the love of God exists in and around us, even when and especially when we do not realize it.
There is an ocean --cold water without motion. In this ocean, however, is the Gulf Stream, hot water flowing from the equator toward the Pole. Inquire of all scientists how it is physically imaginable that a stream of hot water flows between the waters of the ocean, which, so to speak, form its banks, the moving within the motionless, the hot within the cold. No scientist can explain it. Similarly, there is the God of love within the God of the forces of the universe one with him, and yet so totally different. We let ourselves be seized and carried away by that vital stream.
Albert Schweitzer
God's covenant with Abraham, like the forces of nature that swirl around us every day, can be depended on. God's word awakened in Abram a faith that was waiting for power to be lived out.
--Clarke
Abraham listened to God. He had heard God's covenantal word, how he would have children and how his offspring would be more than the sands of the sea. But, as he grew older, the promises seemed distant. But the love of God exists in and around us, even when and especially when we do not realize it.
There is an ocean --cold water without motion. In this ocean, however, is the Gulf Stream, hot water flowing from the equator toward the Pole. Inquire of all scientists how it is physically imaginable that a stream of hot water flows between the waters of the ocean, which, so to speak, form its banks, the moving within the motionless, the hot within the cold. No scientist can explain it. Similarly, there is the God of love within the God of the forces of the universe one with him, and yet so totally different. We let ourselves be seized and carried away by that vital stream.
Albert Schweitzer
God's covenant with Abraham, like the forces of nature that swirl around us every day, can be depended on. God's word awakened in Abram a faith that was waiting for power to be lived out.
--Clarke
