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The Unfailing Promises of God

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 11, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 13.

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The Unfailing Promises of God

By W. H. SEBASTIAN

W. H. SEBASTIAN
Can any one cite an instance where God failed to fulfill his promises?—No. Our “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent.” Not one of his promises has ever failed. “A God of truth, . . . just and right is he.” Abraham speaks to this end when he says that what God has promised he is fully able to perform. “He staggered not [he did not waver] at the promise of God through unbelief; but was . . . fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.” “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise.” The promises of God are as sure as God himself; he cannot fail, and neither can his promises. God is bound by his promise, and this gives his children confidence that they need not doubt or waver when they ask him for a fulfillment of his word. He will surely answer.
The Bible says: “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” There is nothing greater in heaven or in earth than these “exceeding great and precious promises” of his Word. The Bible is full of them, and they are all made to his children. We are to accept them by faith, doubting not.
When Jesus Christ was about to raise Lazarus from the dead, he said to Martha: “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe thou shouldest see the glory of God?” These words come to us today with just the same force as they appealed to Martha of old; to the discouraged, the despondent, the sick, the weary, yes, to every one; and if we doubt not, we shall surely see the glory of God revealed in marvelous ways.
And why should we doubt God’s promises? We read: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. . . . Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” O, dear brethren and sisters, doubt not what he has promised, for he is surely able to perform!
Portsmouth, Va.