Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God

by Max Lucado

Some of the promises are positive, the assurance of blessings. Some are negative, the guarantee of consequences. But all are binding, for not only is God a promise maker; God is a promise keeper.

The question is not, will God keep his promises, but, will we build our lives upon them?

I had the opportunity to look at it differently. I could ponder the problem, or I could remember the promise. I could choose anxiety, or I could choose hope.

What separates the wise from the foolish? Both men hear God’s words. But only the wise man builds his house upon them.

Why does God love you with an everlasting love? It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with whose you are. You are his. You carry a part of him. There is something

of him in you. He made you in his image. He stamped his name on your heart. He breathed life into your lungs.

In the eyes of God you are worth dying for. Would you let this truth define the way you see yourself?

Would you let this truth define the way you see other people? Every person you see was

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Satan succumbed to pride, and as a result he was cast out of heaven. Jesus referred to that eviction, saying, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10:18). When lightning falls, the descent is brief and electric. When Satan fell, his descent was the same.

He is the enemy of your God-given destiny and longs to be the destroyer of your soul.