Prediction or promise? Decca Records once told the Beatles that their sound was on the way out. Thankfully the Beatles didn’t take that prediction to heart. 

Prediction or promise? There will be flying cars as in movies like Back to the Future. I haven’t seen one yet.

What about the Bible? Prediction or promise? “He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore” (Isaiah 2:4). 

When this passage was written, Israel and Judah did not have much to look forward to other than captivity. All hope to them was lost. But don’t read Isaiah’s words as a prediction of future geopolitical peace. It’s a promise of everlasting peace when Jesus returns.

When we are faced with a captive fear, what do we cling to—a prediction or a promise? Looking at God’s track record in the Bible, we know that he does not make predictions. He makes promises. What’s better—HE KEEPS HIS PROMISES.

The promise of a Savior, the promise to be with you always, the promise to make things work out for your good, the promise that you are a child of God through Baptism, the promise your sins are forgiven—are all promises that are kept by God. Don’t take my word for it; take God’s.