God’s Promises

I am almost at the end of Joshua in my devotions, and earlier today I just finished reading about all the towns and boundaries of Canaan, when Israel claimed it. All of those battles and enemies were beaten because God was on their side, and hadn’t left them once. And now, they were finally seeing the Promise that God had made to Abraham so long ago fulfilled. Joshua (21:44–45) describes that:

The Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hands. Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.

That last line stood out to me the most — that not a single one of the good promises that God gave failed. Not even one failed, every one was fulfilled and good. It may have taken a while from a human perspective, but God spoke and acted as if it had already happened, and His Promises are the same way. They messed up badly, quite a lot, but their failure didn’t stop God’s Promise. It was happening, it was fulfilled.

God even told Moses that He was totally aware Israel wouldn’t honor him, that they would mess it all up again, but His promise to bring them home, if they only turned around, was set in stone already.

I felt like that was something that was true for me and my healing and everything God has promised and spoken over me, and that it is true for anyone who takes it for them.