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+# OurEmptyPromises
+- Created Friday 14 November 2025
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+Human promises are, at best, aspirational. When we make commitments, we do so with good intentions, yet we are always bound by circumstances beyond our control. James 4:13–14 (ESV) warns against the presumption that we can secure the future:
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+> Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"—yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.
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+Proverbs 27:1 echoes this truth:
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+> Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
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+Our plans and promises are subject to the inherent uncertainty of the future, which is why human promises, while often sincere, are ultimately uncertain.
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+This reality is illustrated by the limits of insurance. While insurance is designed to mitigate risk, it can never truly eliminate it. To fully protect against all contingencies, one would need to insure the insurance company, and then insure the reinsurer, leading to an infinite regress. Even this elaborate system can’t guarantee security. It merely highlights our inability to control the future, no matter how hard we try. In contrast, Jesus taught in Matthew 6:34:
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+> Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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+Jesus urges us not to place our trust in worldly means of securing the future, but rather in God, who holds all things in His hands. C. S. Lewis draws attention to our desire for certainty in a world where nothing is guaranteed. In *Mere Christianity*, he reflects on our yearning for something that this temporal world cannot provide:
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+> If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
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+Our deep-seated need for certainty and permanence, combined with the impossibility of finding it in this life, points us toward God. Unlike us, God is not subject to time or circumstance. As Jesus said in Matthew 24:35:
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+> Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
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+God’s promises are the only true source of security because He is sovereign over all things. The Bible teaches us that while human promises are uncertain, God’s promises are sure. No circumstances are “beyond his control,” as Hebrews 10:23 reminds us:
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+> Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
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+Where we fail and are limited by the unknown, God’s word stands unshaken. Only He knows the future and controls it, making Him alone trustworthy to deliver on His promises.
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+_Scripture quotations from the ESV._
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