The Guarantor

UV 3537/10000 The Guarantor You shall serve (only) the Lord your God, and He shall bless your bread and water. I will also remove sickness from among you. Exodus 23 v 25 When we respect, revere, adore God and God alone, we are serving Him. Service to God is genuine and sincere worship from the depth of our souls. When we do so, He gives us three amazing promises contained in this uni-verse and partly in the next verse; first, He will bless our bread and water. In other words, He blesses our provision for life, the material and the spiritual victuals, too for bread and water are metaphors for the WORD OF GOD that we should eat or consume, digest and assimilate and the Spirit of whom we should drink. We should drink of the water that will never make us thirst again, as Jesus said to the Samaritan woman. The second specific blessing He promises, which is most relevant and needed by everyone in a world afflicted by the Covid pandemic and the thousands of deaths resulting therefrom, is that He will remove sickness from among us. We do not have to fear the virus like the rest of the unbelieving world. To this add the promise in the next verse that He will enable us to fulfill our days on earth. It implies that we will live fully and wholly for the days that the Lord intends that we live on this planet before we shift residence to our eternal and permanent home in heaven. The next verse also holds the promise that we shall not be barren or unproductive. We will be fruitful and blessed in all that we attempt. Our work will be established and we will not be working in vain. We will enjoy the fruit of our labour. The promise that our children will not suffer miscarriage or be barren implies that the Lord will continue our line through our physical and spiritual offspring into the next generation. No one but God can give these guarantees of long and fulfilling life, of abundant provision, of continuity of our lineage, of healing and removing sickness from our midst. Jesus is the Guarantor of the promises given by Jehovah, the Father. The Holy Spirit is the One who reminds us constantly of these promises in our difficult situations of life. God’s promises cover the entire gamut of our needs from the basic or physical to the material, monetary and spiritual. All He needs from us is whole hearted devotion to Him.