If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that God's promises are TRUTH. I can hold Him at His word.
In life, holding people at their word is unfortunately not always realistic. Sadly, I've known this sad truth as early as childhood. Knowing this, and learning to deal with it emotionally and spiritually are two different things. Personally, I've experienced abuse, heart ache, sorrow, loneliness, and an intense longing for belonging. My mother struggled most of my life with many things, which that part isn't a part of my story to tell, but because of her strongholds, it became very real to me, early in life that people, even those who you love (and those that love you), still will let you down. Growing up, life wasn't always easy for me, as I got older, I began to long for something or better yet, someone who I could ALWAYS depend on. Not being saved at the time, I thought surely my then future husband would be that for me.
Because of Hollywood and fairytales, I had this false expectation that my husband should basically be my "knight in shining armor" for all the bad things in my life. When my husband came along, I would deem him as "my person." The person who would never let me down, never disappoint me and would always be there for me. Although my husband has helped me, supported me, has been right by me in some of the lowest moments of my life, he's still human, still flesh (just like I am) and it's unrealistic to put that type of pressure on a person. Toxic even. No matter how much he loves me, cares for me, and wants what is best for me, what I really needed (and what we all need) is a Saviour. It's true what they say, "the best of men are still men at best" (this also applies to women).
As I longed for the hole in my life to be filled, it was only filled and the broken pieces mended once I accepted Christ as my Saviour, and began to fully rely on God's promises. I say this, not to say that I've arrived in this area, or that it's always easy. It most definitely is a journey, a mind and heart shift, a constant realization that I many not be enough, and other people may not be enough to fill the needs of my broken-ness, but the God of all glory, of all creation and wonder, IS.
He is enough and He promises us many things in His Word that can bring comfort, peace, and JOY in all circumstances. Being a child of God; I know that I can hold God at His Word for God cannot lie.
Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Titus 1:2 "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"
Hebrews 6:18 "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:"
This month, I've gone through and pulled a verse or two for each day to meditate on that declares God's promises to us to use because John 14:13 says, "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." If you're struggling today, I encourage you to study these promises, ASK IN HIS NAME for these promises to be made truth in your life and take God at His Word and know that he "will do it!"
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