God Keeps His Promises
Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True.
Revelation 19:11
An aging priest named Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth had prayed for a child for decades. Year after year, the tent of their hope grew threadbare. People whispered. Society dismissed them. Barrenness, in their day, felt like a verdict: “God has forgotten you.” Yet Scripture tells us they were both righteous in God’s sight, walking blamelessly in all the commandments (Luke 1:6). They remained faithful when every circumstance screamed that God was not.
One ordinary day in the temple, while Zechariah burned incense, the angel Gabriel appeared and said, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard.” The prayer he had probably stopped daring to pray out loud. The one he had buried under disappointment and routine. God had not forgotten. In their old age, Elizabeth would bear a son—John, the forerunner who would prepare the way for the Messiah.
The Rider on the white horse is called Faithful and True because He is the same God who was faithful and true to Zechariah and Elizabeth when all evidence said otherwise. He is the God who hears prayers that have turned to sighs, and who remembers covenants when we have forgotten the sound of our own hopes. And when He returns, every Zechariah who waited in silence and every Elizabeth who carried hidden shame will shout with a voice unloosed forever, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people!”
Heavenly Father, thank You for keeping your promises. Help us to be worthy soldiers in the fight against evil for the souls of Your children. In Jesus’ name we pray, ANEN
