Wednesday, February 28, 2018

BOB Good morning! This is Bob Peden of Central, A United Methodist Community in downtown Meridian. Promises. We hear people make promises to us all the time. Print media, television, radio, and signs are full of ads making all sorts of promises. Politicians glibly make false promises. People we love make promises to us. Promises seem to fill the air around us. Broken promises often break our hearts. A deep cynicism slowly seeps into our hearts. Before long, the protective side of our minds warns the open side of our hearts about phony promises and how they have disappointed and hurt us in the past. But I can assure you that God has made you a promise that will not fail. His promise comes in the form of Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. God does not promise us health and wealth and fame, but God does promise us that He will be with us in all things. And I can assure you that God does indeed fulfill that promise.