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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 12, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 32.

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They Are For Us

By GEO. B. STARR

GEO. B. STARR
All of the exceeding great and precious promises of the Word of God are for us personally; God gave them to us when he gave Christ to us.
“For all the promises of God in him are yea [yes], and in him Amen [so be it], unto the glory of God by us.” 2 Cor. 1:20.
Now when we say, “Yes, Lord,” to every promise given, “I thank thee for giving me this word,” God says, “So be it unto you.” And thus we glorify God by taking him at his word, and trusting him fully and unreservedly to fulfil all his good promises to us.
The value of any promise — and of all promises — is measured by the ability and faithfulness of the promisor to keep it. The one who promises beyond his ability to fulfil is only awakening false hopes; and when it is found that he is unable to keep his word, discouragement and disappointment follow. No one has a right to make promises beyond his ability to fulfil.
God is divine, and thus is able to make divine promises. God ever lives to fulfil his promises, and his memory never fails. Our best earthly friends sometimes, oftentimes, forget their good promises, but not so our Heavenly Friend; as it is written, “There hath not failed one word of all his good promise.”
Because he is God, because he is good, because he is faithful and true, he will fulfil his word. He could not remain God, and fail in keeping his promise. More sure and steadfast than rocks or hills, than suns or planets, is his word.
And the very thing promised is in the promise itself. As the tree is in the nut, all hidden away and apparently lifeless in its hard, unpromising shell, so the very thing God promises is in the promise itself. But it must needs be planted in the heart and mind. Left in the printed page, it is like the seed hidden away in chest or drawer. But grasped by faith, and planted in the moistened soil of the heart, it manifests its divine life and fulfils itself and produces itself. Then let us select the promise containing just the help we need,—be it forgiveness, cleansing, healing, purity, or power,—believing the word spoken, was spoken for us, that it is divine, and that God lives to make it alive in us; and it will be so. It is so.
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