God keeps His promises.

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates...”

Genesis 15:18

God makes and keeps promises with His people. The word that the Bible uses to describe these holy promises made by a caring God is “covenant”. And this is the covenant God made with Abram: He would become the father of nations and his offspring would receive a land to live in that stretched from Egypt to the south all the way to the Euphrates river to the north.

God would keep this unconditional covenant with Abram. He would bless him with offspring. He would give the wandering nomad a home. In Abram’s experience, it would be one son (Isaac) and a burial plot that would be the start of this promise before Abram died. It would all be God’s doing. Abram just believed by faith and God saw that faith as righteousness (Genesis 15:6). The promises of God were the content of Abram’s faith. God was believed and God did the work. And God kept working generation after generation with Abram’s descendants.

Hundreds of years down the road, during Solomon’s reign, Israelite power stretched all the way to the borders here described in God’s promise to Abram. It took generations of faith, and God kept His promise made so much earlier. Abram’s offspring became numerous and prosperous. God’s people dwelt within the land He promised them. God makes promises and keeps them. And we have a new and better covenant now made by the sacrifice of Jesus that keeps all that will believe God and be credited with the righteousness of Christ today!