A BIG GAP

Have you ever considered how the Scriptures are filled with many, many great and precious promises?  Peter writes how we have been given everything we need for life and godliness (see 2 Peter 1:3).  Have you further considered how, oftentimes, there is a BIG GAP between your prayer for the promise and the realization of the promise in your life? Remember how David was anointed king many years before becoming king. Remember how King Saul spent years trying to kill David amid the fact that God had promised the kingdom to David.  Remember God's promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and much later to Moses that the land would be given to them.  They never received the promise.  God also never gave the land to the people, they had to fight for it.  In all of these situations, there was a BIG GAP between the promise and the fulfillment.

 

Even so today, life has not changed for us.  There is likely a BIG GAP between your prayer and the answer, the facts of the matter and the truth of God's Word, your confession and its fulfillment, God's yes and your amen.  Since the beginning of this year, one of my confessions has been Ephesians 3:20 where God promises to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or imagine.  Recently, I was told by my insurance company that my car was being totaled.  They would pay $8,000 less than was owed on the car. Reminded God of His promises to me.  Very quickly found out that gap insurance which I didn't know I had would cover the difference.  Went to the dealership same day to get another car.  Completed a deal where I got a new car paying $100 per month less in a three year lease than I was previously paying in a four year lease.  Yes, there was a BIG GAP between my confession and its fulfillment.  Thank you Father for the fulfilled promise.  Thank you Jesus for the BIG GAP.