Promise Keeper

Happy Saturday friends! It’s been a month since my last post which only shows me how fast time goes. I’ve been spending a lot of the past weeks adjusting to new things and preparing myself for the new year! I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting which I’ll be careful not to do on this post and to save for my yearly end of the year recap.

I wanted to share this morning about God being a promise keeper. First I want to take a moment just to acknowledge how kind God truly is. I experience often how kind and thoughtful God is to me and I’m truly grateful for that. I often see a lot of women state that God is a girl dad and while initially I had my reserves about that statement, I think I can also agree fully that God is definitely a girl dad. I’ve been experiencing that more and more lately with Him and it is such a sweet and comforting experience.

As I’ve been transitioning through a lot of new phases in my life, I think of where I was a year ago and even longer than that and the things that I’ve experienced. I look back on the days where I cried so many tears and prayed so many prayers feeling that God wasn’t hearing me and that He didn’t see me. I begged and pleaded for things and often times got different results. I learned that I don’t have to beg and plead with God, but that all I truly have to do is wait and trust Him. God is one who truly develops character for our purpose. He knows us in such a profound way that He knows what we need in order to be victorious. I say that to say, I’m understanding more the pains of going through and growing through the woes of life. Our woes aren’t just for us. It’s for the freedom of others as well. It may seem unfair at face value, yet I think about people who are suffering far greater than me. A lot of people need just one person who knows and who’s been there to encourage and walk with them through it all.

I think about the many things that I’ve endured over my life and I think about the times where I thought I would just have to “live” with those experiences and move on. Yet just in the time that I needed it the most, God has been mending the broken pieces. God has been restoring the parts I thought couldn’t be restored. He’s been fulfilling His promises to me one moment at a time. I share this to say, we don’t often understand the journey and even the pain that comes with the journey of life. However one thing that we can trust is that God does not waste anything. He makes everything purposeful and He doesn’t go back on His word or His promises for our life. I’m able to hold on to things that God has spoken to me closely now and in a more trusting way. I’m able to remind God of His track record when I’m feeling unseen or unheard because I can trust that He does indeed see and hear me and that He will place things timely on my behalf.

My prayer today is that we will be able to trust and know God as a promise keeper. That we will hold on to His unchanging word. I pray that those who feel tired, unheard and unseen by everyone even if they feel unseen and unheard by God, I pray that they will experience the faithfulness of God and a reminder that He hasn’t forgotten about them.

With love,

Yours Truly, Eb