Promises Aren't Contingent

1996

The problem is our refusal to die. It’s not anybody else’s fault. It’s not that we haven’t tried hard enough. Or that we haven’t put in enough effort. We don’t have enough talents or gifts. Or, our circumstances aren’t like everybody else’s. “You just don’t understand.” “If you knew my mother you would see why.” That sort of stuff carries no weight. Jesus didn’t refer to any of that stuff when He made those promises. Those are non-issues.

None of those promises are contingent on what happens when our hormone levels reach a certain level or what happens when our children are all crying at the same time, or what happens when we haven’t had much sleep, or when we got laid off on the job. None of those promises are contingent on anything other than our willingness to die to our own self-life. And then those promises blossom and bloom and multiply and spread and fill the earth. And that promise is for us and for our children and all who are afar off. Unquestionable, non-negotiable, absolute promises from heaven.