+DEV+ Poor Promises, Good Promises

Date: February 8, 2011 12:29 AM
Topic: +DEV+ Poor Promises, Good Promises

Poor Promises, Good Promises

"Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he" (Isaiah 2:22)?
Scripture Focus: Isaiah 2:5-22

The essence of trusting God's promises is trusting the God who makes them. In the rather philosophical film "Revolutionary Road," someone says to the principal character, "You have put your trust in a promise no one ever made to you." That is a broken reed indeed!

Many put their trust in human promises. For instance, the remedies from self-help literature promise the earth and do not deliver. The thing about God is that He is the only one who can always deliver. He has the will, and He has the power to perform His promises. The 18th Century English writer, William Romaine, wrote to a friend, "As I was going along the road, I heard a voice saying, 'CEASE YE FROM MAN, from yourself, from others: put no confidence in them. Put not your trust in princes, not in any child of man, be he wise, or great, or good. Nay, look not at them, but with a single eye, look unto Jesus.'"

He set out on a new path of not heeding other promises but only the promises of God.

Insight: In difficulties do we look first to our own understanding or to others' advice? Put your fundamental trust in the Lord Jesus.