The New Promise
Remember the days of yesteryear when your best friend whispered in your ear, “I know a secret, but you must promise not to tell anyone.” With eagerness you said, “I promise.” After you soaked in all the details of the secret, you whispered in someone else’s ear, “I know a secret, but you must promise not to tell anyone.”
From the beginning of time with Adam and Eve until today, humanity has had a problem with keeping promises. We break our promises to one another, and we break our promises to God.
Radio stations constantly play those sad songs which tell of the broken promises between two people. However, the radio station can be changed or turned off. The court dockets also reflects the broken promise of life. Sadly the events that are reflected by the court statistics cannot be turned off or changed as easily as the radio.
God realized there must be another promise made, a “new promise” that would be different. God said, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it ... they shall all know me.” (Jer. 31:33-34). The last part to the “new promise” is the most beautiful, “I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more.” (v. 34).
The new promise was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. (see 1 Cor. 11:25). In Him humanity can have that everlasting relationship with God. In Christ the guilt
and hurt of the many broken promises can be restored. Have you taken advantage of God’s restoring power to cleanse you of the guilt and hurt?
God would say, “Forget your guilt, your hurt and your past; I have forgiven you.” That’s a promise you can count on.
Taken in part from the Christian Single, October 1982