#PromisesKept

From the beginning a promise was made. The first humans had yielded to temptation and the consequences were astronomical. Their first impulse was to hide from the law giver, but to no avail, because He who is everywhere all the time knew where to find them and hold them accountable. He said a few pertinent things to the tempter and to the tempted when he confronted them. He told the woman that He would put a deep seated hostility between the tempter and the tempted, a mutual hatred would develop between humans and now their arch enemy, Satan. He then promised that her 'seed' would bruise Satan's head and Satan would bruise her seed's heel.

It took four thousand years for her 'seed' to put His foot on this earth, but the promised Messiah came in the fullness of time. God kept His promise. This chosen one left glory and appeared as a small vulnerable baby born in a barn. This chosen one would make all things right between guilty humans and the law giver. He would be led to slaughter as an innocent lamb to give up His glorious life to pay the debt of breaking the law. God's way was real in that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.

It is interesting - the bruising of a head and a heel. The bruising of the heel is recoverable, but the bruising of the head can be deadly

This was only one of a great number of promises made by the promise keeper. This one has been kept, but there are other ones we still wait for the fulfillment of. This Chosen One was seriously bruised to the point of death, but it was recoverable and He resurrected on the third day to finish what He had started. He is the great promise keeper and stated, as He prepared to return to glory, that He would come back and finish off our arch enemy and would restore all things better than when new. It has been two thousand years since He stated this. To humans, it seems like a long time but to God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. God measures time differently than we second counting humans. A thousand years is nothing to God and His promise will be kept in the fullness of time. He will return.