Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m claiming that promise from God”? Perhaps they were praying for a new job, hoping to purchase a house, or asking God to change a difficult situation in their lives. They found a Bible verse that seemed to speak directly to their circumstances, and because God always keeps His promises, they became convinced that He would eventually give them what they were asking for.
But let me ask you something. How do we know that a particular promise in the Bible was actually made to us?
Think about that for a moment.
We believe that the Bible is God’s inspired Word. We believe that He is perfectly faithful, that He cannot lie, and that everything He has promised will be accomplished according to His will. But does that mean every promise recorded in Scripture applies to every Christian in exactly the same way?
If God promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit a particular land, should we expect to receive that same piece of property? When God promised David that his royal house would endure, was He making an identical promise to every father concerning his family? And when God told the Israelites that He would bring them out of Egypt, should we interpret that as a personal guarantee that He will remove every difficult circumstance from our lives?
I think we need to be careful here.
The promises of God are among the most extraordinary truths revealed in Scripture. They show us His faithfulness, His mercy, His sovereignty, and His commitment to accomplishing everything He has purposed. But if we misunderstand those promises, we may begin expecting things God never actually guaranteed.
And when those expectations are not fulfilled, we may wrongly conclude that God has failed us.
The problem, of course, is not with God’s faithfulness. The problem may be with our understanding of what He promised in the first place.
This is why I believe Christians need to learn how the promises of God unfold throughout the Bible. Rather than treating Scripture as a collection of individual promises waiting for us to claim them, we need to understand the larger story God has revealed.
It is a story that begins with creation, moves through the history of Israel, and reaches its fulfillment in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
And when we begin to see how those promises fit together, something remarkable happens.
We discover that God’s promises are far greater than the individual blessings we sometimes hope to receive.
They reveal His eternal purpose to redeem a people for Himself through His Son.
The First Promise in a Fallen World
To understand the promises of God, I believe we need to begin near the beginning of Scripture.
In Genesis 1 and 2, God creates the heavens and the earth. Everything He makes is good, and humanity is created in His image to live in fellowship with Him and exercise dominion over His creation.
But that relationship is disrupted through sin.
In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve disobey God’s command, and sin enters human history. The consequences are devastating. Shame, alienation, suffering, and death become part of humanity’s experience.
Now, consider what happens next.
God confronts Adam and Eve concerning their disobedience. He announces judgment, and the consequences of sin begin unfolding.
But in the middle of that judgment, we encounter a remarkable declaration.
In Genesis 3:15, God speaks to the serpent concerning hostility between the serpent and the woman, and between their offspring. The woman’s offspring will ultimately strike the serpent’s head, while the serpent will strike his heel.
At first glance, someone reading this passage for the first time might not recognize its significance.
After all, the verse does not explicitly mention the name of Jesus Christ. It does not provide a detailed explanation of justification, atonement, or the resurrection.
But as the rest of Scripture unfolds, we begin to recognize the significance of this promise.
Historic Christian theology has often referred to Genesis 3:15 as the protoevangelium, meaning the first announcement or anticipation of the gospel.
It introduces the expectation that the conflict brought about through sin will not continue forever without resolution. Ultimately, the victory belongs to the offspring of the woman.
And when we read the New Testament, we see how Jesus Christ enters human history to defeat sin, death, and the devil through His saving work.
Hebrews 2:14 explains that through His death, Christ destroys the power of the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
Think about what this means.
Humanity has just rebelled against its Creator. Adam and Eve have no way of repairing the damage they have caused. They cannot undo their disobedience or restore themselves to their original condition.
Yet God has not abandoned His redemptive purpose.
Even in the midst of judgment, Scripture begins directing our attention toward the victory He will accomplish.
And I think this tells us something important about the nature of divine grace.
Redemption begins with God’s purpose, not humanity’s ability to rescue itself.
The gospel is not a desperate response from God after human beings ruined His original intentions. His redemptive purposes are not an emergency plan developed after sin entered the world.
Scripture reveals a God whose eternal wisdom and sovereign purposes cannot be defeated by the rebellion of His creatures.
And from this point forward, we begin seeing His promises unfold through the generations.
God’s Promise to Abraham Was Bigger Than Abraham
Several chapters later, we encounter another extraordinary moment in redemptive history.
God calls a man named Abram, who would later become known as Abraham.
In Genesis 12:1–3, God commands Abram to leave his country and go to the land that He will show him. The Lord promises to make him into a great nation, bless him, make his name great, and bless all the families of the earth through him.
Now, stop and think about that promise.
At the time, Abraham did not possess the land God had promised. He and Sarah also had no child through whom the promised nation could come.
From a human perspective, the future God described seemed almost impossible.
Yet God made the promise.
As the account continues, the Lord repeatedly confirms His covenant with Abraham. In Genesis 15, God formally establishes His covenant concerning Abraham’s descendants and the promised land. In Genesis 17, He further explains the covenant relationship and gives circumcision as its sign.
But notice something remarkable.
God’s promise was never limited to Abraham’s personal happiness or earthly success.
Yes, Abraham would receive real blessings. His descendants would become a nation, and the land promise had a particular historical significance.
But the promise also included something much greater.
Through Abraham, all the families of the earth would be blessed.
What did that mean?
To answer that question, we need to continue reading.
In Galatians 3:8, Paul explains that Scripture anticipated God’s justification of the Gentiles by faith when it announced the blessing of the nations through Abraham.
Later, in Galatians 3:16, Paul directs attention to the promised offspring and identifies Christ as the ultimate fulfillment of that promise.
And Galatians 3:29 teaches that those who belong to Christ are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to the promise.
Do you see how the pieces are coming together?
The promise God made to Abraham was not simply about producing a large family or establishing a nation in a particular geographical location.
Those historical realities mattered, but they were part of a much larger redemptive purpose.
Through Abraham’s line, Jesus Christ would come into the world.
And through Christ, the blessings of salvation would extend to people from every nation.
That includes believers who were never physically descended from Abraham.
Think about how extraordinary that is.
A promise made to one man thousands of years ago finds its ultimate significance in the salvation of people throughout the world.
That is the kind of faithfulness Scripture wants us to recognize.
God was not merely promising Abraham a better personal future.
He was revealing part of His plan to redeem the world through Jesus Christ.
And that should change how we read the Old Testament.
We are not simply studying the experiences of interesting historical figures.
We are tracing the unfolding purposes of a faithful God.
Why God’s Covenants Matter
At this point, we need to discuss something that many Christians hear about but may not fully understand.
The Bible repeatedly speaks about covenants.
But what exactly is a covenant, and why does it matter when we study God’s promises?
In the simplest terms, a covenant is a binding relationship established through solemn commitments. In Scripture, God’s covenants help explain how He relates to His creation and how He unfolds His purposes in history.
But we need to be careful not to treat every biblical covenant as though it functioned in exactly the same way.
Consider God’s covenant with Noah.
After the flood, God promises that He will never again destroy all flesh through a flood, and He establishes the rainbow as the sign of that covenant (Genesis 9:8–17).
That promise concerns the continuing preservation of the created order.
Now compare that with the covenant God establishes with Israel at Mount Sinai.
In Exodus 19, God calls Israel to be His treasured possession, a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. The covenant includes particular commandments, responsibilities, and blessings associated with Israel’s life as a covenant people.
The Mosaic covenant also includes warnings concerning disobedience. Deuteronomy 28, for example, describes blessings and curses associated with Israel’s covenant faithfulness or unfaithfulness.
Those historical and covenantal details matter.
We cannot simply remove an individual blessing from Deuteronomy, ignore its relationship to Israel’s covenant obligations, and announce that every Christian who obeys God will receive the same agricultural prosperity or national security.
That is not careful biblical interpretation.
At the same time, we should not imagine that the different covenants are unrelated religious arrangements that have nothing to do with one another.
They belong within the unfolding history of God’s purposes.
Historic Reformed theology has emphasized the unity of God’s saving grace throughout redemptive history. Although God’s covenant dealings have taken different forms across the biblical eras, salvation has always depended upon His grace and ultimately upon the saving work of Jesus Christ.
Old Testament believers were not saved by earning righteousness through obedience to the law.
Like believers today, their hope rested upon God’s promises and His gracious provision of redemption.
The difference is that they looked forward toward promises whose fulfillment was still unfolding, while we look back upon the historical accomplishment of redemption through Christ.
And that brings us to an important principle.
We must understand God’s promises according to the covenant in which they were given and the way Scripture reveals their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
Otherwise, we may begin treating the Bible as though every promise were written directly to us without regard for its original purpose.
And that can lead to serious misunderstandings.
The Promise of a King Who Would Reign Forever
Let me take you to another important moment in the Old Testament.
In 2 Samuel 7, King David desires to build a house for the Lord.
David has established his kingdom, and he recognizes the contrast between his own royal residence and the tent associated with God’s dwelling among His people.
But God responds through the prophet Nathan with a promise far greater than David could have imagined.
Instead of David building a house for God, the Lord announces that He will establish a house for David.
Of course, God is not speaking primarily about constructing a physical residence.
He is speaking about David’s royal dynasty.
In 2 Samuel 7:12–16, God promises that David’s offspring will succeed him and that his kingdom and throne will be established.
There is an immediate historical dimension to this promise, particularly in the reign of David’s son Solomon.
But the promise also looks beyond Solomon.
Why?
Because God speaks of an enduring kingdom and throne.
Now, if we read only the historical accounts of Israel’s kings, we might begin wondering what happened to that promise.
After Solomon, the kingdom becomes divided. Subsequent rulers often lead the people into idolatry and disobedience. Eventually, Jerusalem is conquered, the temple is destroyed, and the Davidic monarchy ceases functioning as it once had.
From a merely human perspective, it might appear that God’s promise had failed.
But had it?
Not at all.
The prophets continued directing Israel’s attention toward a coming ruler from David’s line.
Isaiah 9:6–7 speaks of a promised child whose government and peace will have no end and whose reign will be established upon David’s throne.
Then, centuries later, the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that her Son will receive the throne of His father David and reign over the house of Jacob forever (Luke 1:32–33).
And who is that Son?
Jesus Christ.
Do you see the significance?
God’s promise to David was not defeated by the collapse of Judah’s earthly monarchy.
Its ultimate fulfillment is found in the Messiah.
Jesus is not merely another political ruler temporarily occupying a throne.
He is the risen and exalted Son of David whose kingdom will never end.
And this changes how we understand the entire history of Israel’s monarchy.
The failures of Israel’s kings demonstrate humanity’s need for a perfectly righteous ruler.
The promises concerning David direct our attention toward that King.
And the New Testament announces that the promised King has come.
Once again, God’s faithfulness is revealed across generations.
What He promised, He accomplished.
Not necessarily in the way people expected, but according to His perfect wisdom and redemptive purpose.
The New Covenant and the Promise of a Changed Heart
There is another promise in the Old Testament that I believe every Christian should understand.
It is found in Jeremiah 31.
To appreciate its significance, remember what had happened throughout Israel’s history.
God had delivered His people from Egypt, established His covenant with them, provided His law, and repeatedly called them to faithfulness through His prophets.
Yet the people continually rebelled.
They worshiped false gods, ignored God’s commands, and broke the covenant.
And the consequences were devastating.
But in Jeremiah 31:31–34, God announces that He will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
And this covenant will not be like the covenant they had broken.
God promises to put His law within His people and write it upon their hearts. He promises that they will know Him and that He will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
Think about how remarkable this is.
God is not merely promising improved external circumstances.
He is promising a profound change in the relationship between Himself and His people.
The problem of sin requires something deeper than another opportunity to behave better.
We need forgiveness.
We need spiritual life.
We need hearts renewed by the grace of God.
And those blessings are secured through Jesus Christ.
At the Last Supper, Jesus identifies the cup with the new covenant in His blood (Luke 22:20).
The author of Hebrews later explains the superiority of Christ’s priesthood and sacrifice, drawing directly upon Jeremiah’s promise of the new covenant (Hebrews 8:6–13).
Christ does not merely provide another temporary sacrifice requiring continual repetition.
He offers Himself once for all, accomplishing the redemption toward which the Old Testament sacrificial system pointed.
Hebrews 10:14–18 connects His sufficient sacrifice with God’s promise of forgiveness under the new covenant.
This is something we should never take lightly.
The promises of the Old Testament are not isolated religious predictions that happen to make interesting historical reading.
They form part of the unfolding revelation of God’s saving purposes.
God promised forgiveness and a renewed covenant relationship with His people.
And Christ accomplished the work necessary to secure those blessings.
That is why Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 1:20 that God’s promises find their Yes in Jesus Christ.
The point is not that every promise made to every individual in Scripture becomes an identical personal guarantee for every Christian.
Rather, Christ is the decisive fulfillment of God’s redemptive purposes.
He is the promised offspring of Abraham.
He is the greater Son of David.
He is the Mediator of the new covenant.
And through His death and resurrection, He secures the salvation that God’s promises had anticipated.
If we fail to see this, we may miss the greatest treasure those promises reveal.
They lead us to Jesus Christ.
Can We Really Claim Every Promise in the Bible?
Now, let’s bring this into our everyday lives.
Suppose someone is considering a major career decision.
They have been offered a new position with better compensation, but accepting it would require moving their family to another state.
They are uncertain about the decision, so they begin praying and searching Scripture for guidance.
Eventually, they read Jeremiah 29:11, where God speaks about His plans for His people’s future and welfare.
They become convinced that the passage guarantees the move will be successful.
But is that what the verse actually promises?
To understand it, we need to remember that Jeremiah was speaking to the Jewish exiles in Babylon.
God was revealing His purposes concerning their captivity and eventual restoration after the appointed period.
That promise had a particular historical and covenantal setting.
It was not originally given as a guarantee that every career move, business decision, or personal investment made by a Christian will succeed.
Now, does that mean the passage has nothing to teach us?
Of course not.
It reveals God’s faithfulness to His covenant promises and reminds us that His purposes are not defeated by circumstances that appear hopeless.
But we need to distinguish between a passage’s original promise and the broader truths we can rightly learn from it.
The Christian considering a new job should certainly pray for wisdom.
They should examine their responsibilities, consider the needs of their family, seek appropriate counsel, and make a responsible decision.
And they can trust that God remains sovereign over the outcome.
But they should not assume that Jeremiah 29:11 guarantees the promotion will lead to financial success or that every difficulty will eventually disappear.
I believe this distinction is extremely important.
Sometimes Christians place expectations upon God that He never promised to fulfill.
Then, when circumstances do not turn out as expected, they become disappointed with Him.
Perhaps the business fails.
Perhaps the new job is more difficult than anticipated.
Perhaps the family discovers that the move created challenges they did not foresee.
Does that mean God broke His promise?
No.
It means we must be careful not to confuse our interpretation of a biblical passage with the actual promise God made.
So how should we approach the promises of Scripture?
We need to ask who originally received the promise and what God was communicating in that particular context.
We should consider whether the promise belonged to a particular covenant, whether conditions were attached, and how the rest of Scripture explains its fulfillment.
And above all, we need to ask how the promise relates to God’s redemptive purposes in Jesus Christ.
These questions do not weaken our confidence in Scripture.
They protect us from misunderstanding it.
The promises of God do not become less wonderful when we interpret them carefully.
They become clearer.
And often, we discover that their ultimate significance is far greater than the temporary blessing we were originally hoping to receive.
When God’s Promises Take Longer Than We Expect
There is another part of this subject that deserves attention.
God’s promises do not always unfold according to the timetable we would choose.
Consider Abraham again.
God promised him descendants, yet Abraham and Sarah waited many years before Isaac was born.
During that time, their circumstances presented what appeared to be an increasingly impossible situation.
They were growing older.
Sarah remained barren.
And the promised future seemed to move farther away rather than closer.
At one point, Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham in an attempt to obtain offspring through her, as recorded in Genesis 16.
That decision created painful consequences within the household.
But God’s promise concerning Isaac had not changed.
Eventually, in Genesis 21, Isaac was born according to the Lord’s word.
Now, we should be careful not to turn this account into a general promise that every couple longing for a child will eventually receive one.
That is not what the passage teaches.
The birth of Isaac was part of God’s particular covenant promise to Abraham.
But the account does demonstrate something important about divine faithfulness.
God’s purposes do not become uncertain simply because their fulfillment takes longer than human beings expect.
And the delay does not mean that God has forgotten what He promised.
Hebrews 11 presents a remarkable perspective on this issue.
The chapter recounts men and women who lived by faith, including Abraham and Sarah.
Yet Hebrews 11:13 explains that some of these believers died without receiving the promised things in their fullness, having seen and greeted them from afar.
Think about that statement.
These were people whom Scripture commends for their faith.
Yet they did not personally witness the completion of everything God had promised.
Their hope reached beyond their immediate lifetimes.
And that should challenge the way we sometimes understand faith.
We often imagine that trusting God’s promises means expecting Him to fulfill our desires within a relatively short period.
But Scripture presents believers who trusted God across generations, even though the ultimate fulfillment of His promises remained in the future.
They knew that God’s faithfulness was not limited to what they could personally experience before death.
And neither is ours.
There are promises we have already seen fulfilled in the coming, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
But there are also promises whose full realization remains ahead of us.
We live between the accomplishment of redemption through Christ and the final consummation of God’s kingdom.
Theologians sometimes describe this as the already and not yet of the Christian life.
Christ has already defeated sin and death through His saving work.
Believers have already received forgiveness, justification, and the Holy Spirit.
Yet we still experience the consequences of living in a fallen world.
We still struggle with sin, suffer physical weakness, and face death.
The fullness of redemption has not yet been revealed.
That does not mean God’s promises are incomplete because He has failed to accomplish them.
It means His redemptive plan is unfolding according to the order He has established.
And our hope extends toward its final fulfillment.
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
One of the extraordinary blessings of the new covenant is the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Before His ascension, Jesus instructed His disciples to wait for the promise of the Father (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4–5).
That promise was fulfilled in a decisive way at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the gathered believers.
Peter explained in Acts 2:33 that the exalted Christ had received the promised Holy Spirit from the Father and poured Him out.
This was not merely an impressive religious experience.
It marked a significant moment in the unfolding history of redemption.
The promised Messiah had accomplished His saving work, risen from the dead, and been exalted to the right hand of the Father.
And now the Spirit was being poured out in connection with Christ’s accomplished redemption and the establishment of His new covenant church.
But why does the promise of the Spirit matter to ordinary Christians today?
Because the Holy Spirit does not merely provide occasional emotional experiences.
He brings spiritual life, unites believers to Christ, opens our understanding of God’s Word, and works within us to produce genuine holiness.
Ephesians 1:13–14 describes believers as being sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until its full possession.
Think about the significance of that expression.
God has not merely made a promise concerning our future salvation and then left us with nothing to assure us of its certainty.
He has given His Spirit as the guarantee of the inheritance secured for us through Christ.
That should encourage us.
Our confidence in the future completion of redemption does not depend upon our ability to maintain perfect spiritual performance.
It rests upon the faithfulness of God.
The Spirit whom He has given to His people is part of the assurance that His saving purposes will be completed.
And this should influence how we understand the Christian life.
We are not simply waiting for an eternal future while attempting to survive through our own strength in the meantime.
God is already at work within His people.
He is renewing our minds, exposing our sins, strengthening our faith, and gradually conforming us to the likeness of Jesus Christ.
The fulfillment of God’s promises is not merely something we study in ancient history.
Through the Holy Spirit, believers are already experiencing the blessings of Christ’s accomplished redemption.
And we continue looking forward to their final completion.
The Promise of a New Creation
There is one final promise that I believe brings the entire biblical story together.
It is the promise of the new creation.
The Bible begins with God creating the heavens and the earth.
Humanity is placed within His good creation, but sin brings corruption, suffering, and death.
Throughout Scripture, God reveals His purpose to redeem His people through the promised Savior.
And in the final chapters of Revelation, we encounter the fulfillment of that redemptive hope.
Revelation 21:1–5 describes a new heaven and a new earth, the dwelling of God with His people, and the removal of death, mourning, crying, and pain.
Think about what that means.
The Christian hope is not merely that we will escape this world and spend eternity existing as disembodied spirits.
Scripture promises resurrection and the renewal of creation.
Our future is bound to the victory of Jesus Christ, the risen Savior who will bring His redemptive purposes to completion.
The corruption introduced through sin will not continue forever.
Death will not have the final word.
And God’s people will dwell in His presence, free from the sin and suffering that now mark life in this fallen world.
Now, imagine an elderly Christian who has spent decades following Christ.
Perhaps that person has experienced the deaths of loved ones, physical decline, disappointments, and many of the hardships that accompany a long life.
From the world’s perspective, their remaining years may appear increasingly limited.
But consider the promises of God.
If this person belongs to Christ, their hope is not confined to whatever comfort or happiness remains available in this life.
Their hope rests upon the resurrection and the eternal inheritance secured through Jesus Christ.
What an extraordinary difference that makes.
The world measures the future primarily in terms of what we can accomplish, acquire, or experience before we die.
But the Christian understands that the greatest blessings promised by God reach beyond death itself.
And that is why our hope can remain secure even when earthly circumstances become uncertain.
We are not promised that every desire will be fulfilled during our lifetime.
We are not guaranteed perfect health, financial prosperity, or freedom from disappointment.
But those who belong to Jesus Christ have been promised something infinitely greater.
The final completion of their redemption and everlasting life in the presence of God.
That promise cannot be purchased with money.
It cannot be earned through religious effort.
And it cannot be defeated by the powers of this world.
It has been secured through the finished work of our risen Savior.
The God Who Promises Is the God Who Keeps His Word
Let me return to the question we began with.
How do we know which promises in Scripture belong to us?
The answer is not simply to find a verse that sounds encouraging and assume God has guaranteed the outcome we desire.
We need to understand Scripture according to its original meaning, its covenantal setting, and its place within the unfolding history of redemption.
We need to recognize that God’s promises to Abraham, Israel, David, and the prophets were not disconnected statements made for unrelated purposes.
They were part of His gracious plan to bring salvation through Jesus Christ.
The promised offspring of the woman would defeat the serpent.
The blessing promised to Abraham would extend to the nations through his offspring.
The enduring throne promised to David would find its ultimate fulfillment in the Messiah.
The new covenant announced by Jeremiah would be established through Christ’s blood.
And the promised inheritance of God’s people will reach its glorious fulfillment when Christ returns and the new creation is revealed.
Do you see how beautifully these promises fit together?
The Bible is not merely a collection of individual stories about people who trusted God.
It is the unfolding revelation of God’s faithfulness to His own redemptive purposes.
And those purposes are centered upon Jesus Christ.
That should change the way we approach Scripture.
Rather than searching primarily for promises that guarantee our personal success, perhaps we should spend more time considering what God has already accomplished for us through His Son.
Rather than becoming discouraged when our circumstances do not improve as quickly as we hoped, perhaps we should remember that the greatest promises of God extend far beyond the temporary conditions of this life.
And rather than measuring His faithfulness by whether He gives us everything we ask for, perhaps we should measure our confidence by what He has already revealed about Himself.
He is the God who cannot lie.
He is the God who remains faithful across generations.
He is the God whose purposes cannot be defeated by human rebellion, political power, suffering, or death.
And He is the God who has graciously given His Son so that sinners might receive forgiveness, righteousness, adoption, and everlasting life.
Now, this does not mean we should stop praying about our everyday needs.
Of course not.
We should bring our concerns before our heavenly Father. We should pray for our families, ask for wisdom, seek His provision, and trust Him with circumstances we cannot control.
But we should do those things with a proper understanding of His promises.
We should never demand that God fulfill an expectation He never actually made.
Instead, we should learn to rest upon the promises He has truly given.
And when we do, I believe our faith becomes stronger because it is no longer dependent upon our ability to predict how every circumstance will unfold.
It is grounded in the unchanging character of God.
There may be times when we cannot understand what He is doing.
There may be promises whose complete fulfillment we will not witness during our earthly lives.
And there may be questions about His providence that remain unanswered until we stand in His presence.
But none of those things changes His faithfulness.
The same God who made His promises throughout the Old Testament is the God who fulfilled His redemptive purposes through the coming of Jesus Christ.
And the Savior who rose from the grave will return to complete the salvation of His people.
That is why we can have confidence.
Not because we have discovered a way to make every biblical promise apply to our personal desires.
But because God has revealed Himself as faithful, and His faithfulness has been demonstrated through the saving work of Jesus Christ.
The promises of God were never intended merely to give us confidence that our earthly plans will succeed. They reveal something infinitely greater: the eternal faithfulness of the God who has purposed to redeem His people through Jesus Christ and who will accomplish everything He has promised, for His glory and our everlasting good.
And that is a promise worth holding on to.