Exodus 32:11

“Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: “ LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭32:11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬


The word is filled with promises from our God. As we got to discuss with a lot of teens at a kids camp that we were just a part of, the number of God’s promises in His word are almost uncountable. But those aren't the only things that the Lord promises us. Something that Team Uganda got to hear from Joe Focht in a teaching on Romans was how all believers, like Abraham, have personal promises from God that are only between us and Him. And these promises may at times make us feel very alone, and like no one else understands, but that is because only God understands our hearts. But even knowing that we've been given those promises, at times we may forget about them, or not remember them to be from God and think that they are just from ourselves. Abraham had every reason to think like that. Even his own wife laughed when angels, one of whom believed to be Jesus before His natural birth, said that she was going to have a child. How alone must Abraham have felt. But yet he continued to have faith and believed that God would hold true to His promise, and God accounted it to him as righteousness. And I feel Moses in this verse was in a similar boat. His entire people started worshipping a golden calf while he was gone, including his right hand man and brother Aaron. I mean if that were me, I feel like God would just want to wipe out my nation, and that He wouldn't want to keep His promise any longer. But Moses continued to have faith, and he didn't forget the promises that the Lord had spoken to him. He may not have been thinking of them when he was rebuking his people, hence the tantrum Moses had when he broke the two tablets he had been given by the Lord, but he remembered them when he needed to. Sometimes we may forget about the Lord’s promises, but no matter what happens they never change. And sometimes the Lord puts us through trials to test our faith, and remind of that His promises still hold true. For the next week, I'm going to in time of prayer thank the Lord for the promises He's spoken to me, and praise Him for them.

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