God will do it
God is not a man that He should lie. So says Numbers 23:19. He said it. He will do it.
We can have confidence that what God says He will do.
“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Numbers 23:19
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
The context is the Prophet Balaam being hired by Balak, son of King Kippur of Moab, to prophesy and persuade God to curse Israel. But Balaam was finding it impossible to go against the will and Word of God.
And God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
Numbers 22:12
Balaam knew that God had already blessed Israel and therefore could never go against His own Word. He is not a man that He should lie.
Men have the ability to lie. They can go against their own words. For many people this has been an issue. People can say one thing and do another. Some may even go against a promise they have made in the past. God will never do this.
In the end Balaam could only speak God’s Word into the situation and bless Israel for this was the will of God and He cannot go against His own Word. He could only speak what the Lord put in his mouth. Such is the ministry of the Prophet.
Assurance
We can have an assurance that what God has said will surely come to pass.
But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
2 Corinthians 1:19-20
Where we find the promises of God to us we can know that God is true and that His Word will come to pass in our lives as well as those to whom we minister.
He is the Yes and the Amen. The Amen is an assurance that what God has said He will carry through.
“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
Isaiah 55:10-11
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
God’s Word, His promises, are watering the earth. God’s Word is seed that is being sown by preaching and teaching and reading and study and meditation and being put into action by faith, and it is producing what God sent it to provide.
He says Yes and He says Amen when we bring His Word into play in our own lives and in the lives of those we serve with the Word of Truth.
We don’t have to be like Balaam who was corrected for being misled by God’s enemies into trying to stand against God’s will, and finally brought to declaring and prophesying the truth because a Prophet, if he is a true Prophet, can only speak what God puts in His mouth.
Now, under the New Covenant, we can utter the Word of God, which is readily available to us, and we can believe and watch it come to pass, just as He promised, the Yes and Amen.
