There have been some fantastic new hymns written in recent years. One of them in “I will stand on every promise of your word” by Keith and Kristyn Getty. It describes a number of circumstances we might face, from the simple arrival of each new day through to the horror of failing God and stumbling. The repeated refrain is that we can “stand on every promise of God’s Word.” There is a reason for this:
For your covenant is sure, and on this I am secure.
It’s the very specific promise made, through God’s covenant to us, that in Christ, we are redeemed, we are bought as his people, the price for sin has been paid and so we are adopted in God’s family. Every other promise to us flows out of this promise.
We stand at the turning of the year today as we prepare to move from 2023 into 2024. For some of us, there will be looking back with thankfulness and joy at good things that have happened, for others sadness and even regret. For some of us, the new year brings hope and excitement for others, dread and anxiety. The only way that we can face what is to come is if we stand at the turning of the year on God’s promises. That’s where we find security for what lies ahead. I cannot promise you that everything will go swimmingly in the year ahead. I don’t know if your dreams will be realised or crushed. I don’t know what you may have to face but I know that if you are trusting God’s promises then you will not be facing 2024 alone and without hope.
Faithroots 