The Lord Has Promised Good…

When my children were small, we memorized one scripture verse a week. I wrote them on poster board with bright colors and we posted them around the walls of their bedroom. I had a little box with “Precious Promises” in them and I would pull out a scripture that I thought was simple enough for them to memorize at five and three years of age. We started with the easy ones: Romans 3:23, Romans 8:28, John 3:16, 1 John 1:9. One day I came across Jeremiah 29:11; it was a longer verse and harder to memorize, but it was so appropriate for our lives at the time, that I taught it to them anyway.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord,

"plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future."

Jeremiah 29:11

I'm not sure if at that young age they understood what they were saying, but I did. And every day as we repeated it over and over, it brought peace and hope to my heart. It wasn't until many years later that I "found" a couple of verses in Jeremiah 32, and it was just this week that I connected them to Jeremiah 29...

"I will make an everlasting covenant with them:

I will never stop doing good to them...

I will rejoice in doing them good."

Jeremiah 32:40, 41

This is a promise from God that, in my mind, not only clears and forges the pathway to our future and our hopes, but is built on a foundation of solid rock.

This morning as I was getting ready for the day, I heard this song playing:

The Lord has promised good to me

His word my hope secures

He will my Shield and Portion be

As long as life endures.¹

Where is your hope today? Place it securely in the knowledge that God has promised to never stop doing good for you?

'Lena

^{1 My Chains Are Gone, Chris Tomlin}