Pray the Word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

He begins to grieve over because they have rejected the love of God in Jesus.

And then he gets to verse 6 and he says, but it is not as though the word of God has failed.

So some might say, well, God's promises are not coming true because his people are not

trusting in him. There's a lot we could talk about there, both with the remnant that does continue

among Jewish men and women and children. It continues all the way to today, even as we pray

for the spread of the gospel among Jewish men and women and families spread out around the world.

And we praise God for followers of Jesus among those Jewish men, women and families who have

trusted in Jesus and are faithfully spreading the gospel. But I really want to camp out on this phrase

that Paul uses when he says the word of God has not failed. And I just want to encourage you with

that phrase today. When you or I walk through trials through challenges, when you and I pray for

things and God doesn't answer in the way we're hoping or wanting him to, when you or I face certain

situations in life, we can be tempted to think that God's word is not true or that God's word

has failed us. And I just want to encourage you, even as I encourage my own heart in a fresh way

today, God's word doesn't fail ever. God's word never fails those who trust in him and his word.

Now in the short term and by short term, that could mean days or weeks or months or it could

mean years or decades, but it's still short term in light of eternity. We may struggle to see

how God is being true to his word. Surely that was the case for centuries of slavery in the Old

Testament. And we could go through many other instances. Think about Joseph spending year after

year after year in a prison. God, why is this happening? I think about Abraham with a promise from God

that he would have a child with Sarah after all these years struggling to believe as your word failed

oh God and time and time and time again every single time God's word proves true and I guarantee

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