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The Promises of God are to Ignite Praise not Engender Apathy

If you are like me you might begin to become so familiar with God’s promises that they become residual and assumed. You might even feel somewhat uncomfortable praising God for doing what he has always said that he would do.

For example, Jesus speaks of God’s sovereign, loving faithfulness to his sheep:

(Joh 10.28-29)  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

This is amazing. God powerfully, lovingly, faithfully, keeps those to whom he has given to Christ. They will not and cannot be lost, dropped, fumbled, expelled, discarded or plundered.

Why is this? Because in Christ God is for us.

So do we assume this promise? Do we become comfortable with this promise? The fact that God promises this and does this should not cause us to become apathetic or indifferent. Instead, the promising God who keeps his word should cause us to become humbled, thankful and evermore confident in his word! In other words, God’s promises must not engender apathy but ignite praise.

Shame on us as Christian for stuffing our notebooks, journals and minds with these various proof texts without allowing them to be fermenting in our hearts and spoken in our prayer closets. Let us bring this sacred dynamite into our hands, hearts, and minds that it might be shaking off the dust of apathy and familiarity.

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