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Precious Promises

“Promises precious and supreme”; “precious and wondrous”; “precious and very great" (2 Pet. 1:4). To read the different translations is like turning a jewel in the light. Each turn shows some new beauty.

In the end, we shall find every promise perfectly fulfilled. Then why should we not let our hearts rest in peace about everything that happens? For nothing can happen that can break a single one of these precious and exceeding great, supreme, and wondrous promises.

What depth it gives to Peter’s words when we remember that he was to die by crucifixion and knew it. There is no promise of an easy passage, but there are countless promises for every day of the voyage and for a welcome when He brings us to our desired haven (as Ps. 107:30 puts it).

Let us take one promise for our own today, live on it, test it, and prove it—and thank Him for it.

EXCERPTS from Whispers of His Power: Daily Devotional Readings by Amy Carmichael from CLC Publications. For more information, please visit https://www.clcpublications.com/shop/whispers-of-his-power/

Amy Carmichael was the eldest daughter of a large Christ-centered family in Millisle, Ireland. She was impressed at an early age that “nothing is important but that which is eternal.” This understanding proved to be the foundation for her service to the Lord among the mill workers of Ireland, the Japanese briefly, and then in India where she began her ministry to children in 1895 and where she remained until her death in 1951.