GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES

 

GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES

 

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins . . ." (1 John 1:9 KJV).

 

Dinny Malone was an old, retired sea captain with a reputation for integrity. He told his minister that he had been trying for six years to get God to forgive him and He wouldn't.

 

"Have you repented and trusted God?" the minister asked.

 

"Yes," replied Dinny. "But I never feel in my heart that He has forgiven me."

 

The minister read 1 John 1:9 to the old man and then asked, "Dinny, when you give your word, don't you keep it?"

 

"I sure do!" he thundered. "I'm a gentleman, and I have never gone back on my word."

 

The minister looked straight at Dinny. "Don't you consider God to be as trustworthy as you? Don't you think He will keep His word?"

 

Suddenly the light broke through. "Why, of course!" Dinny shouted. "God would not lie. He has said He would forgive me, so He must forgive me. Now I know I'm forgiven!"

 

Many people struggle to know they are saved. To question that God has saved you after you have met His conditions and done what the Word tells you to do, is to deny that God is eternal truth and cannot lie. "In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began" (Titus 1:2 NKJV).

 

Life response: I will trust God for a glorious future because He always keeps His word.