Jehovah's Promises and Our Future

Our hope, our faith, and our very life all depend on the fulfillment of Jehovah's promises.  What hope do we cherish?  There are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to [God's] promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell." (2 Peter 3:13)  The Scriptures also give us a basis for faith that "there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous." (Acts 24:15) And we can be sure there is something more than this present life. Indeed, what the apostle John calls "the promised thing" is "the life everlasting." (1 John 2:25) But the promises of Jehovah in his Word are not limited to the future.  They give meaning to our everyday lives right now.

The psalmist sang:  "Jehovah is near to all those calling upon him, . . .and their cry for help he will hear." (Psalm 145:18, 19) God also assures us that "he is giving to the  tired one power; and to the one without dynamic energy he makes full might abound." (Isaiah 40:29) And what a comfort it is to know that  'God will not let us be tempted beyond what we can bear, but along with the temptation he will also make the way out!  (1 Corinthians 10:13) If we have personally experienced the fulfillment of any of those promises, we know that Jehovah can be trusted absolutely. In view of the benefits we derive from the many promises that God makes and keeps, how should we view our promise to him? 

Next time: Keeping Our Promises to God

From the Watchtower magazine, 1999