Promises are important in relationships because they build trust, strengthen friendships, develop integrity, and encourage confidence. A promise is a commitment to do something for someone else’s benefit. When we keep our promises, we reflect faithfulness and love.
The Bible teaches that God also makes promises. When God makes a promise, it is a binding commitment rooted in His character. Throughout Scripture, God’s promises are always true. He gives them to provide hope and to serve as the foundation of our faith.
Titus 1:1-2 says, “I, Paul, am God’s slave and Christ’s agent for promoting the faith among God’s chosen people, getting out the accurate word on God and how to respond rightly to it. My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago, and He doesn’t break promises.”
Paul tells Titus that his life’s purpose was to raise people’s hopes about eternal life. From the beginning of time, God promised eternal life through Jesus Christ, and Paul declared the good news that God never breaks His promises.
When God says it, we can believe it. He promises that nothing can separate us from His love, that He will work all things for good, that He will give us peace when we fix our minds on Him, and that He has plans to prosper and not harm us.
This week, let’s remember God’s promises and the good news that He is faithful and will do everything He has said.
Now that’s BombDiggity.
Written by
Lane and Jules Morris
Authors and University of Tennessee faculty writing from our farm in East Tennessee about gardening, the farm kitchen, faith and designing a flourishing life at any age. More about us
