The Promises of God

He who has promised is faithful,

Listen up all you people!

I am talking about our God

Not old slew foot, that deceptive fraud.

What God has promised He will deliver

For He that has promised is able,

He the Creator of the Universe

Is willing and able and stable.

He is not a “fly by night”,

He is not a “flash in the pan”,

He is not a “Johnny come lately”

And he does not lie; He is not a man.

He who spoke the World into being

Is able to do whatever He says,

Do not compare Him with Hollywood

And their fictitious movies and plays.

 

His promissory record is spotless,

He has never failed to deliver,

Not only has he kept His word

But has always performed to the letter.

For those who are His toughest critics

Cite one case when He didn’t come through,

Not one you can find though hard you search

God’s promises are yea and true!

Don’t compare but contrast

The many you’ve trusted with your life,

How oft they have failed you

Even father, mother, husband and wife!

Contrast I said for the reason

That no one can be compared to God,

He alone stands on the pinnacle

And infinitely beneath Him is that Fraud.

Are you in doubt when I say fraud?

Do you really not know to whom I refer?

Well let me tell you plain and straight

I mean Satan, the devil, that cur!

He wasn’t that when he was created,

Lucifer, son of the morning was he

But in his quest to upstage his Creator

Not only was he mistaken but silly.

What an awful silly thing to do

Regarding the One who caused him to become!

And he did not only attempt it once

But tried again with God’s Son.

 

Was he not aware of the promise?

Could he not read Genesis 3 verse 15?

Yes we can say to both questions

But he was obsessed with his futile scheme.

I believe he knew of God’s promise

But his nature is to defy God’s word

And many fall prey to his wooing

Even though what he brings to them is absurd.

God has always kept His promise

The Bible is replete with this fact

And all who want to advance otherwise

Need a replacement memory pack.

He made a promise to Abraham

That He has kept even up till now

And though the enemy had tried to thwart it

God had always triumphed somehow.

Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise

Having come once, he will come again,

Having been a son of Abraham

Now the born again can claim the same.

 

For we are not children of the bond woman

But we are children of the free,

The promise having been made to Sarah

Has been extended also to you and me.

Take note particularly in these times

When promises are made to be broken

But when God the Almighty makes a promise

It is more than just rhetoric or a token.

God’s promises are His Word

Which he honours above His name

And all who have come to Him

Know God’s promises they can claim.

So have you been oft disappointed?

Have you been regularly hoodwinked?

Just stop now at this twentieth verse

And seriously begin to think.

Some may have the power

But you they don’t consider,

Others may really want to help you

But don’t have the power to deliver.

God has both of these facilities,

He has both the love and the power

The love was shown on Calvary

And the resurrection is the Christian’s tower.

So trust no longer the arm of flesh

But put your faith in the Living God,

He will bring what concerns you to pass

And finally rid you of the despicable fraud.

Remember God is not a politician,

He does not need a majority vote,

He did not ascend His throne by an election

So to the detractors I say, “Take note!”

Stewart Russell © August 2017