A Promise is a Promise-Chapter 17-24

Throughout the Bible we can see how God interacts with mankind, unlike many other religion’s gods. In the story of Noah and the ark, God makes a covenant with Noah never to flood the Earth or wipe it out again. He used the rainbow as a sign of the covenant. “My covenant with you that never again will all the flesh be wiped out by the waters of a deluge; there will never again be a deluge to destroy the earth.”(Genesis 9:11)Then again we can see another covenant with Abraham. “This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.”(Genesis 17:10) After these God makes more promises with mankind and man begins to do the same amongst each other. Abraham and Abilemech make a covenant. Abraham is given money, land, flock and Abraham blesses Abilemech’s household. No one can say they have kept every promise they have made, but God can. We can be absolutely sure of his honesty and fulfillment in his part of the bargain. Today many people form a sort of covenant although we call them simply a promise. Most cases one of the two people break their end of the bargain and end up paying for it. Throughout the bible God keeps his promises but it is us, mankind that breaks it. In Sodom and Gomorrah we became violent and evil, not even ten innocent, blameless people could be found. Later Moses goes up the mountain to speak with God and when he returns he find the people he just saved from slavery and imprisonment worshipping a golden calf instead of God who delivered them from their previous situation. We should learn from these examples that God keeps his promise with man no matter what. When we make a promise it is our responsibility to hold it up and keep it.