God Is So Amazing

He leads me …

God is amazing when it comes to dealing with people.

In Genesis 15 we see that God promises to bless Abraham, and to make him a blessing to all the people of the earth.

430 years later we see in Exodus 19-24, that God reminds the Israelites of all he has done for them and that He is also a covenant-keeping God. He expected them to do the same for Him by obeying His Ten Commandments. This would be an expected natural outworking of gratitude to Him for His delivering them out of the oppression of the Egyptians. God promised that if Israel could keep His covenant, then they would be His special people (Exodus 19:5-6). Even then, if they did disobey and receive the full brunt of the curses, God said that He would not break His covenant with them.

Some 440 years later, the Lord promised King David a dynasty and an heir, whose throne would be established forever (2 Samuel 7). That heir is Jesus Christ and with Him came the New Covenant. This means that by His sacrifice on a cross, we can accept Him as our Lord and Saviour by faith, and all our sins are forgiven. From there we can enjoy a beautiful relationship with the Creator Himself!

At what stage has God given up on mankind? Never. And this is something that we should think about when we go through hard times and it seems like He is not with us.  The Lord may not be doing things our way, but He has not left us on our own. His promise is that he will never leave us or abandon us,[1] and He always keeps His promises.[2] When we read our Bible, we see that many hundreds of years through both the Old and New Testaments confirm His faithfulness.

[1] Deuteronomy 31:6, 8; Joshua 1:5, 9; Isaiah 41:10-13; Matthew 28:20; Hebrews 13:5

[2] Joshua 23:14; Psalm 89:34; 2 Corinthians 1:20