Broken Promises

“What is Wordle?” you might ask.  It is a recent online word game that has been created by someone with the last name Wardle.  A grid is used to guess a five-letter hidden word in six tries.  The colour of the letters changes to show how close you are to the answer on each line you input.  Green is for the right letter in the right spot, yellow the letter in the word but not in the right spot and gray for the letter not in the word.  Many have become addicted to it – me, not so much; although I do like lots of word games.  As you well know, words are important particularly when used to make promises; however, not so good when those promises are broken.

The world is extremely upset and disturbed by all of Putin’s broken promises resulting in death or suffering of innocent people in the Ukraine and most likely for his own Russian people.  It’s a very discouraging and heart-wrenching legacy to pass along.  In contrast, last week Gary and I attended the funeral of a very dear, godly man who made it to 101 years old.  He and his wife helped us start Eastwood Baptist Church in St Thomas in the 80s and Bob was one of Gary’s trusted deacons.  He was highly respected until his death; he didn’t break many promises along the way that we knew of.  We really appreciated the pastoral support he gave us as a young couple in ministry.

Sadly, a promise was broken by the manager of the restaurant where we have been meeting for over a year for our Hillside Sunday services in Milton.  A couple of weeks ago he said that we could no longer use the party room which was really ideal for our purposes.  There was no discussion, no compromise for time for us to locate to a new place.  Since then, Scott Lockhart has been scouting the area to find a new restaurant, but nothing has turned up as yet.  We wanted to make Easter Sunday another “Come and See” Sunday for the contacts we have already made.  This is one more obstacle, among many, to hurdle over in the life of Hillside Church.  Again, we would appreciate your prayers.

Our God is not a promise breaker. There are close to 200 passages of Scripture that describe these promises of new land for the Israelites, a son for Abraham and Sarah, also the development of a great nation for them, the coming of the Messiah, the Gospel news to spread, the Holy Spirit for comfort, eternal life and inheritance for His followers. Psalm 145:13 declares, “… the Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does.”

Early Easter blessings!

Wendy         

Wendy.carter@kainos.org