Morning By Morning #209

He has given us his very great and precious promises.

2 Peter 1:4

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

If you desire to truly experience “his very great and precious promises” and to enjoy them in your own heart, then meditate on them often. God’s promises are like grapes in a winepress, for when you walk in them the juice begins to flow. Thus, meditating on them will often be the prelude to their fulfillment, and while you are pondering them, the blessing you are seeking will come to you without you even sensing it. Many Christians who have thirsted for a particular promise have discovered the divine blessing it promises being ever so gently distilled into their soul while they were still meditating on it. They have since rejoiced that they were led to meditate on the promise in their heart.

Besides meditating on God’s promises, seek to receive them into your soul as His very words. Say to your soul, “If I were dealing with the promise of a man, I should carefully consider the character of the person and his ability to deliver on his promise. The same is true with the promises of God. My eyes should not be as focused on the greatness of His mercy, which astonishes me, as much as they are focused on the greatness of the Promiser, which will truly cheer me. My soul, it is ‘God, your God’ (Heb. 1:9)—‘God, who does not lie’ (Titus 1:2)—who speaks to you. This promise of His that you are considering is as true as His very existence. He is the unchangeable God and will never alter the words that have come from His mouth, nor will He ever call back a single comforting sentence. Nor does He lack the power to fulfill His promise, for the same God who made ‘the heavens and the earth’ (Gen. 2:1) has spoken it. He also has perfect wisdom to bestow the blessing at the proper time or to withhold it, and His wisdom will never fail. Therefore, knowing that the Word of God is so true, unchangeable, powerful, and wise, I will—and must—believe His promise.”

If we will meditate on God’s promises in this way, focusing on the Promiser, we will truly experience their blessings and receive their fulfillment.

From the pen of Jim Reimann:

According to Jewish tradition the Shield of David physically represents the Hebrew word amen. The emblem is better known as the Star of David, but its actual name is the Shield of David, because Israel is not to “make…an idol in the form of anything in heaven above” (Ex. 20:4). It is two interlocking triangles, one pointing to earth and the other to heaven, symbolically meaning: “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10).

With that in mind, consider the words of Paul: “No matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God” (2 Cor. 1:20). Thus, God’s promises will be fulfilled in the same way His will is done in heaven.

The Hebrew word amen is twice used as a noun in Isaiah 65:16, which says, “Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth; he who takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth.” Instead of “the God of truth,” the literal Hebrew is “the God of amen.” And when Jesus says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you” (John 1:51 KJV) or “I tell you the truth” (NIV)—something He says twenty-six times in John—He is literally saying in Hebrew, “Amen, amen”!

In other words—it “will be done,” for our God is the God of amen!