Why a promise?

After Galatians 3:15-25 

One wonders: why make

a promise? Why tell

a childless old man

that his offspring

would be countless, like

grains of seashore sand?

What did a promise, 

when to could have been

simply a matter of doing it?

 

Perhaps it is a plan,

the plan unfolding over

time, designed with

a purpose an aim. First,

the promise. Then, the law,

serving as guardian. Then,

the promise fulfilled,

the guardian no longer

needed, the guardian

replaced by faith

indwelled.

 

It is a plan all along.

The earth shook,

the prison doors blew

open. Faith has come;

the promise is fulfilled.

 

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