| Broken Promises | | | | chapter 3 verse 9 says, The Lord is not slack |
| My niece called me late one evening, she was | | | | concerning his promise, as some men count |
| crying on the other end of phone. I asked her | | | | slackness; |
| what was wrong, and she said weeping; so and | | | | |
| so did not keep her promise to pick me up. She | | | | It has been over 2,000 years since Jesus |
| said, I have been waiting all day and she has not | | | | ascended up to sit on the right hand of the |
| come or returned my calls. I felt for her, as I | | | | Father. But before he left, he gave us a promise, |
| imagined her waiting in anticipation all day long and | | | | and the promise is still good. It is found in the |
| becoming anxious as the time went by. My heart | | | | book of St John chapter 14 and it says, |
| went out to her and I tried to assure her that | | | | Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, |
| sometimes things happen that make it impossible | | | | believe also in me. In my Father's house are many |
| to fulfill a promise, but to be patient and that it | | | | mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you, |
| would be alright. After hanging up from my | | | | I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and |
| conversation with my niece, I thought how many | | | | prepare a place for you, I will come again, and |
| times have we made a promise we could not | | | | receive you unto; myself that where I am, there |
| keep, or to be honest, how often have we made | | | | ye may be also. |
| a promise and simply did not keep it? Then I | | | | What an awesome promise! And no matter how |
| thought of our heavenly Father who has made us | | | | long the wait, it will be worth every second. |
| promises that he would never brake. 2 Peter | | | | |