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All About Jesus Ministries
All About Jesus Ministries
3 Things God Never Promised
In Scripture, God makes a lot of promises. He keeps them all, but there are a few things he never promised that might surprise you. Here are three
Justice on earth
God keeps score. He promises to heal the wounded, reward the faithful, and punish the wicked (2 Corinthians 5:10). But he doesn’t promise to do any of that until after heaven and earth are remade without the curse of sin. He promises justice. He does not promise swift justice.
God is patient with us all (2 Peter 3:9). That’s a great comfort until we realize that he’s also patient with those who harm, oppress, and offend us.
To my regular frustration, Scripture never gives permission for us to enforce our own interpretation of justice (Romans 12:9). Instead, we’re told to wait on God’s perfect plan to be carried out on his perfect time (Psalm 37:7).
Comfort
Many television preachers have built a personal empire on the false promise that obeying God will lead to material prosperity and success. But God never promised his followers an easy life. In fact, he warned us to expect the opposite (John 16:33)—hardship and persecution from the world, and even correction from his own hand (Hebrews 12:7).
The Christian life is not a comfortable life, but it is a fulfilling one.
Instant change
I love hearing stories of miraculous life transformation. They fuel my faith in the transformative power of God’s Word more than anything else. But they also plant a desire for the same sort of instant change in my own life. Yet still I still wrestle with entrenched habits and besetting sins (Hebrews 12:1). Much as I love to see instant change in others, and long to experience it myself, I must remember that God has promised to change me, but hasn’t promised to do it instantly.
He has promised to complete the transformative work that he’s begun in me (Philippians 1:6), a promise that implies this change is going to take a while.
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- Home
- Ministry Biography
- Products
- Ministry Philosophy
- Prayer and Devotional
- About Ministry
- Contact
- Blog
- Book OF Ephesians:The Church
- Bible Translations
- Ancient Concept of Universe
- Death is a Rude Visitor
- Promises of God
- Synoptic Gospels
- Kingdom of God
- Five Task of a Pastor
- Vocabulary of Salvation
- Old Testament History
- Prophecies Fulfilled By Jesus
- Inerrancy of the Scripture
- Canonicity
- Apologetics Defined
- Qualifications, Deacon, Elder
- Breath of God
- Strategies of Satan
- How to Lead Someone to Christ
- Significant Biblical Numbers
- Personality of the Holy Spirit
- Error of Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Bloodline of Jesus
- The Biblical Story
- The Heavens Declare His Glory
- blank 2
- The Sanhedrin
- Christ The Conerstone
- Ark of the Covenant
- The Israelite Encampment
- The Five Solae
- About Christianity
- Protoevangelium
- Donations
- Kingdom of Heaven/God
- God Never Promised
- Books of the Bible
- The Rivals of the Bible
- Ministering Spirits
- Facts about Heaven and Hell
- Jesus is Deity
- Decrees of God
- Dispensation Chart
- Jesus Is Messiah
- Names of God
- Who’s in Your Inner Circle
- Charles Spurgeon
- Faith in Christ
- The Spirit of God
- The Hebrew Manuscripts
- Doxa
- Soul Sleep Defined
- Islam and Christianity
- Bible Reading Not Study
- Humanity of Jesus
- Rapture/Second Coming
- The Fear of God
- Tribulationism
- Old Nature/New Nature
- Hades And Sheol
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