To Encourage You

2 Corinthians 1:20 “For all the promises of God find their Yes in Him.”

Do you realize that many people have no good reason to trust in the promises of God?  They may believe the promises are for them. They may know Bible verses and be able to quote them.  They may think that because God promised things to certain people in Scripture that, by that, He also had made the same promises to them.  But the many wonderful promises of God are only valid under one condition. As the verse above tells us so plainly, “all the promises of God find their Yes in Him,” i.e., in Jesus. 

The promise that God will forgive our sins is only true because He has made a way through Jesus who died for that sin on the cross. It is only when we are in Him, i.e., only when we’ve put our faith in Jesus, that the promise of God’s forgiveness of that sin can ever be realized.  The same holds for the promise of salvation. The only reason that this promise has any validity to anyone is because the conditions for that salvation were met by Jesus. There is no other way, for “there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).  Therefore, unless a person has placed their faith in Christ and what He has done for them on the cross, unless they have given their life to Him and been born again into the family of God, there is no hope for salvation from the punishment and wrath of a holy God upon their sin.  For you see, the same God who promised salvation to all who believed has also promised condemnation and wrath on all those who do not. 

At the time Jesus walked on the earth there were many people, very religious people, that thought that since they were Jews, all the promises of God given to the Jews in the Old Testament were true for them. However, in their rejection of Christ, they rejected the only One through Whom those promises were fulfilled.  And because they rejected the One through Whom all the promises of God were fulfilled, they lost the opportunity to see these promises fulfilled in their own lives. 

There are many people that believe that there is a God.  The Bible tells us that even the demons believe this (“and tremble”) (James 2:19).  There are many people who have heard that God loves everyone, that He is good, and because of that, they believe that, in the end, things will be good for them. They expect to go to the Heaven that the Bible talks about.  However, because the promise of God’s love, God’s goodness, and God’s heaven find their ultimate fulfillment, i.e., God’s “Yes,” only in Christ, those who have never submitted themselves to Christ will find that the promises they were hoping for will be a “No” for them in the end. 

So, are you “in Him”?  Have you placed your faith in the Son of God?  Is He your Lord and Master?  Are you following Him?  If not, you need to know that all the wonderful things you may have heard about God, all the promises of His care for you, His love for you, and His will that you will never perish, will fail you in the end – not because God has failed to keep His promises, but because you have failed to accept the fact that those promises only find their Yes in Jesus. You see, it is Jesus and Jesus alone Who is the  Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one ever came to the Father, and no one ever received the promises of the Father, but by Him (John 14:6).