Jesus is our promise ( Hebrews 10:36)

You have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. ( Hebrews 10:36)

Trials, suffering, brokenness and weakness are all things that pertain to the will of God, however, it is not as if God’s will is to inflict pain on His children, as it may seem sometimes, for enjoyment. Rather, His will is quit the contrary.

When He established the garden, it was a place for man to have full reign and dominion. Man’s will had never been free(er) than in the garden,where freedom & un abated love and sex were climaxed at the pinnacle of expressional emotion. (for whatever that was worth!) The Garden was a place where fellowship with God was a routine meeting face to face. It was literally paradise on earth, until the conception of sin was introduced. After the inception took place, disruption occurred which broke communion with God, which of course necessitated the law, only to be infinitely replaced by Christ’s substitution on the cross.

Trails, pain and weakness have become tools God uses to engage in our lives as part of the process to help aid us back to a spiritual garden(so to speak) that was intended for us to have in the first place. What He had sown in perfection, we have gown in corruption.. Hence, the weeding process becomes the sanctifying work of regeneration..

Today we only see dimly as in a mirror, and the IMAGE of what or who we see is Jesus Himself. He is the image of the invisible God, and He becomes the promise, because Jesus is Himself, eternal life.

Now you may say we have eternal life now, and indeed we do, because we have Him who dwells in us, thanks to the Ascension and Pentecost. But even this is only a glimpse of what is to come.

Jesus told the Pharisee’s that the disciples did not fast because the Bridegroom was with them, but soon when the bridegroom would be taken from them, then they would have need to fast and pray.
This illustration clearly indicates that presently though comforted and guided by the Holy Ghost, it His Ghost that we have but not his face to face fellowship, that the disciples were privy too. It becomes clearer to see then that soon we will have the promise of His face to face fellowship, and not just a glimpse.

Soon, we will see God as He is, and we will enjoy a restored fellowship with Him like the fellowship exemplified way back in the garden with God and man.

Heaven is our reward, and Jesus is the substance of heaven which ultimately makes Jesus the promise.

As Christians, this alone should be enough incentive to endure all things He places in our lives, in order to obtain our inheritance, the promise of our salvation, the One who holds the keys to death& Hades.