Binding

Romans 11: 29

[F]or the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

You’ve gotta get excited about this today! God has made you irrevocable promises. Irrevocable means that the subject cannot be recalled or undone. It is unalterable. That means that not even God can revoke or recall the gifts He has made or call back the calling He has sent. Once done, it is done for all time. God is bound by His own words and cannot change His mind. That is what God intended, that He be bound. He has made His word irrevocable so that you might have confidence and assurance. If He ever said it, then it is there always. Therefore, we can have faith in every word Yahweh has ever spoken.

Any promise you find in the Bible, even if it is an Old Testament promise, is yours because God cannot take it back. Any promise He has ever made to you personally is also still active and you can rely on it. It does not matter if that promise is twenty or thirty years old. God is just as bound by that word today as He was the day He made it. So don’t give up on your hope.

Furthermore, go digging around the Bible for His promises. When you find one that covers your situation, you can hold it up to Him expecting Him to fulfill it for you. All you have to do is ask Him. He has already made the promise and is standing by to fulfill everyone He has ever made. He is just waiting for you to bring it to Him to be filled.

Don’t miss out on the last part of the verse though which says that His calling is irrevocable as well. God has called every single person to Him. That is the calling that is on every life, and every single person has a place in the body of Christ.

There are some of you who have a specific call on your life who have begun to wonder if it will ever come to pass. God has spoken to you but you have given up on the call on your life. Maybe life got busy and the calling slipped to the back for awhile. And yet it is still in the back of your mind pestering you, trying to break out.

You have a reason to hope. His name is Jesus and by his resurrection you have a new life and a new hope. The calling of God is alive and every bit as available to you now as the day you first heard it. Don’t give up on the calling of God because God did not and cannot call it back. Be encouraged for His word never dies and it has within itself the power to bring itself to pass.