Here's a question for you: How do we know that God keeps His promises? You can look at this lovely picture while you come up with an answer to that one. Pretty, isn't it? And soon that's what it will look like outside. Honestly. Because God does keep His promises.

Now how do we know that? Because of Jesus. Almost from the earth-shattering moment when Eve decided to not believe God's word about that fruit tree, God has been promising over and over and over that one of Eve's offspring would destroy the work of that serpent and the serpent himself.

And then He came. Galatians says this: But when the fullnes of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem [i.e. rescue!] those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

So here is the great exchange, the greatest swap the world has ever known. God poured His full wrath against us out on Jesus, forsaking Him utterly, so we would never be forsaken. And now we wear Jesus' robes of righteousness. What an exchange.

Oh yes, God keeps His promises. If ever there were a promise for Him not to keep, it would have been this one. So if He gave His own Son for us, certainly when He promises His steadfast love and faithfulness to us, like He does in Psalm 103, He will surely give it. What an amazing God we serve.