A PROMISE KEEPING GOD // WEEK 6

This is Pentecost Sunday. Forty days after Jesus ascended to the Father the Holy Spirit was poured out with power on those who believed in order to accomplish his purposes on the earth. Their job was to wait and believe. In this Galatians chapter Paul calls a character witness from the OT named Abraham. He was given a promise of greatness, yet he and his wife were old and barren and powerless to achieve it. Yet God called him to believe in the one who had promised. So, by simply believing, this man saw the word come to pass in a way he never could have imagined or created on his own. Abraham wasn’t without questions or faults. Yet an unlimited God used him to model to us a righteousness that relies on faith in the promise keeper and not our own strength or works. Rely is a key word here. It means “those who depend on faith.” When I have come to the end of myself, I can then rely on the one who is willing and able to work for me! We don’t serve him, he serves us! How great is our God!