GOD’S PROMISES ARE TRIED AND PROVEN

“Seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness , through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.   For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. (NASB: Lockman) —2 Peter 1:3 & 4

Although my mother was not a gourmet cook, her food usually tasted delicious.  She loved to make salads and sweets.  Every Sunday we would come home after church to enjoy one of her delicious meals, and they always included some new recipe.  After she passed away, I was looking through one of her cook books and I noticed that she had mark the ones that she had tried and what the outcome was.   Some were marked “D” for delicious and others “G” for good, I don’t recall ever seeing one that was marked “Not Good”. 

I don’t recall the name of the book that I read that said in the margin of many pages in D. L. Moody’s Bible that he wrote the letters “T” and “P,” meaning “Tried and Proved.”  He had put into practice passages from God’s Word, proving that they “work,” which of course they always do.  

Do you know that God said the same thing to us in Malachi 3:10?  “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it (emphasis added).”

Today I encourage you to try and prove God’s wonder-working supernatural precious and magnificent promises that provided everything needed for life and godliness.  You will not be disappointed!

 

Prayer—Heavenly Father, thank You for Your precious promises that assure me that by partaking of them I partake of your divine nature and escape worldly corruption, in Jesus’ name.  Amen.