Atwood, sometimes you just have to use a little common sense. The husband tells his wife , "honey, next year we're going to California on our vacation. But what if she should leave him before next year arrives? That promised vacation will never happen.
Human intentions are often not carried out. Neither is that an example of a promise.
But if the Lord should tell you that tomorrow about this time you will be trampled to death in the gate as the starving mob of Jerusalem storms out to the leper's camp for food, what do you think will happen to you?
Now the Lord has given us exceeding great, gracious, and marvelous promises. He cares greatly that we believe Him.
He has promised you eternal life if only you will trust the Lord Jesus with your spiritual needs and destiny.
Cast it all on Him. He cares for you; He died for you paying for all your sin. Now it gets down to "Whosoever will."
Will you be a "whosoever won't"?
Rom 4:16
For this cause
it is of faith, that
it may be according to grace; to the end that
the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
End of Rom 8:
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good,
even to them that are called according to
his purpose. For whom
he foreknew,
he also foreordained
to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom
he foreordained, them
he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom
he justified, them
he also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If God
is for us, who
is against us? He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God who justifies;
who is he who condemns?
It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.