When we make promises, sometimes we break them
And hurt the people we love the most.
But God’s not like that. He’s always truthful.
He always does the things He says He’ll do.
God keeps His promises; He is so faithful.
We need not worry; He keeps His word.
He is our Father; we are His children.
He always gives us what He knows we need.
About This Song:
Ever since I started writing Christian novels–fourteen or fifteen years ago–I probably haven’t averaged more than one or two new songs a year. I can’t simply determine to write a new song. I need a catchy idea–often a single line–to start with, and those come from the Lord. He only shares one of them with me periodically.
At my church’s nursing home ministry one Wednesday years ago, Pastor Chadwick presented a devotional about the dependability of God’s promises. One point really got my attention. When people question our word and our truthfulness, it hurts. They’re accusing us of lying.
So how much more it must hurt God when we His children don’t accept His promises without question. We react as if He was lying. Or incapable of keeping His promises. How foolish we are to do that.
He’s proven his dependability time and time again. He’s never let one of us down. He may not always do what we want Him to do, but each of His children knows from personal experience that He truly loves and holds each of us in His hands.
Why should we doubt Him–His intentions or His abilities?
That devotional thought solidified in my mind as “God keeps His promises.” When I first wrote the words, the stanzas were reversed. When I changed the order, I kept the original title. It summed up the whole meaning of the song in those four words.
As you can see from the lyrics, I ended up not dwelling on how we upset God by our failure to take His promises seriously enough, but on the fact He always keeps His word. As opposed to the fact we often fail to.
The melody turned out to be very basic. I often spend weeks trying to work out a tune, but this one came so easily I almost worried that I might have accidentally copied something I had heard elsewhere without remembering of recognizing it.
God is faithful, though, and I prefer to believe He wanted to bless these lyrics by inspiring the tune and having me offer the completed song to the director of my church’s preschool choir.
How are you at keeping promises? Do you sometimes break them, no matter how hard you try not to? God forgives us for that.
But we’ll never need to forgive Him for broken promises. He always keeps His word, and I count on that in every part of my life. Do you? If not, you’re missing out on something special.
I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. WHY NOT? is a brand-new release. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.
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Best regards,
Roger
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