Word Promises Blessings
Word
Promises Blessings
“Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.” (Psalm 119:65)
“Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.” (Psalm 119:65)
There
are a multitude of promises of good to be presented to those who walk
with Christ Jesus as Lord. These blessings are logged through out the
Holy Bible and are as certain as the truth in the word of God. The
good that comes from the hand of the Lord is “according
unto thy word.”
God
will perform what he has set His name to. By that name He swears
because there is no greater name whereby He can affirm His good
things for His children. His promises are not just a “piece of pie
in the sweet by and by” but rather multitudes of blessings in this
very time in which we live.
Interestingly,
David
twice emphasizes that it was important for him to be “afflicted”
before he learned something of the gracious provision of the Lord
(Psalm
119:67,
71). It
does not need to be that way. If we must suffer to be blessed because
Jesus suffered for our sins and gifts the result borders on “an eye
for an eye” which He fulfilled with His Grace. The
Hebrew word anah
is
used widely in the Bible, the most famous passage prophesying about
the sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus: “Surely
he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem
him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted” (Isaiah
53:4).
Thank
‘s be to God, His promises to us are gifts of his delight. We don’t
earn them. We don’t deserve them. From the deepest recesses of His
Love,
God grants unto those who serve him as children of a living God, all
things good.
We
should not make the connection that all affliction
will
necessarily come because of personal disobedience. The
Lord
nudges
us into proper perspective to receive rewards freely given. Some
occasion may
be allowed to develop to establish, more fully,
the
concept
of holiness or obedience that will bring His favor or, more properly,
bring us in line with His Word so that we may experience the
“peaceable
fruit of righteousness”
(Hebrews
12:11
“6
For
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth.
7
If
ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son
is he whom the father chasteneth not?
9
Furthermore
we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,
and we gave them
reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father
of spirits, and live?
10
For
they verily for a few days chastened us
after their own pleasure; but he for our
profit, that we
might be partakers of his holiness.
11
Now
no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.)
We
must asked our Lord to teach us or cause us to learn from the Word
concerning the eternal principles of righteousness (see Psalms
119:66, 68, 71). Having come to that pure knowledge of truth we must
strive to keep and delight in the holy laws and principles of which
we are aware.
The
thrust
of this simple message stresses
our stern focuses
and
our
passionate commitment to learn and obey the Word of God. Our
past
cannot
negate God’s faithfulness as
a promise keeper.
No present difficult circumstances can weaken
God’s resolve
to keep His promises.
Thus: “The
law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver”
(Psalm
119:72).
Know
God, know peace. Amen BLL01-05-2019
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