A Promise given from God must be adhered to

A Promise given from God must be Adhered to

How can one know if the Word received is really from the Divine or a pseudo-promise from the Devil?  The next question that might come from an unbeliever is what truth does this Word really mean to me and in what way should I accept it?  

There can be a doubting mind that will be suspicious of every thought which enters the cranium and sends up a warning to examine every opinion or idea.  We can get into a mind-struggle for a consensus to arrive at an answer.  A promise from God is real, compelling, and cannot be ignored without losing the premise of this touch for each soul.  

 A promise is a contract between two persons or a group as in a corporation that is agreed upon by the principles involved in a policy of sorts.  Promises must be kept and contracts strictly observed to the extent that the commitments made in them are morally just.  A significant part of economic and social life depends on the honoring of contracts between physical or moral persons - commercial contracts of purchase or sale, rental or labor contracts.  All contracts must be agreed to and executed in good faith.  (CCC 2410).  This may sound a little confusing since the promises made by God to his people are usually one-sided since he made them before man could even understand them.  Well, not so!  Hebrews 6: 13 states; When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had on one greater by whom to swear, “he swore by himself,” and said, “I will indeed bless you and multiply “ you. 

One reason God did not wait for man to agree or disagree is that God was creating a contract that would benefit mankind without his rejecting redemption.  In the beginning, God knew already since he could see down through the ages how man would take the grace God gave them and because of free will they would have begged, borrowed, and stolen a contract to fit their desires without reading the fine print.

This is the outcome of a promise that only God could convene and assure that we human-beings who now accomplish a contract that is agreeable to us since it was all created with our well-being the foremost satisfaction of what he proposed for each one.  

Therefore my heart is glad, my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure, for you will not abandon me to Sheol, nor let your servant see the pit.  You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever.  (Ps 16: 9 - 11).  

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  (Dn 12: 2).

True and subsistent life consists in this: The Father, through the Son and in the Holy Spirit, pouring out his heavenly gifts on all things without exception.  Thanks to his mercy, we too, men that we are, have received the inalienable promise of eternal life.  (1 Cor 5: 28).

Ralph B. Hathaway