Tuesday, May 24

God’s promise was delivered

God spoke his promise in words. Then when his Word became flesh, God’s promise was delivered. Only God can deliver what God has promised. That is why Christian praise and thanksgiving are so intimately tied up with the confession that Jesus Christ is God and that Jesus Christ is a human being. As we are born, so also was Christ born — to live our life and die our death. He came to us and stands with us to act for us. As God, he delivers what God has promised; as man, he delivers what God has promised to us.

— Colin S. Smith
The Plan
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 16