I just spent the last two hours attempting to fulfill various promises I made to some friends and two strangers I recently met. One of the promises was to send pictures to a Sudanese friend of mine taken at a conference over a year ago. Although, I recently renewed the pledge when I ran into him on a trip to Juba in March; I will just send him those pictures when I get to work later this morning as his business card is at the office. But at the moment, the e-mail is composed with pictures attached, saved as drafts and ready to go when I add his e-mail address. The second picture related promise was for a German lady—one of the strangers, whom I met back in July. We were on the same bus to New York and she had left her camera behind at home but wanted pictures of the city. So, I graciously used mine; but the pictures simply sat on my computer till this morning before I finally sent them to her. She has however seen and replied my e-mail already and was so full of gratitude despite the lateness.
Before we get too far along talking about people, scenes and my photography hobby; let’s get back to the subject of this week’s devotional—promise fulfilled. I would like to call your attention to one very important fact which distinguishes Christianity from every other religion and could literally change your faith-walk if you grasp the details. God has fulfilledHis promise to humanity!
And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again;… (Acts 13: 32,33a)
You might observe that these verses do not say promises; but uses the singular term to describe the promise which God fulfilled in the person of Jesus. Take note also that the past tense is used in describing the promise in the verses above—the good news is in the fact that God has DONE what He promised to do. Unlike us humans who make promises and get inundated by circumstances in our quest to perform; the all-powerful God made good on His promise once and for all time. Before the ages of the world began, God had the answer to humanity’s deepest problem; He knew what we really needed, planned ahead of time and drew his project timeline up to the point of completion.
God gave us Jesus and in Him we are complete, lacking nothing!
-Ifelayo Ojo
