“All the promises God makes in nature, in Scripture, in history, and in the longings of personal experience find their yes in Him. The New Testament speaks of ‘the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.’ Jesus is the upward call of God-calling us from the lower to the higher, the incomplete to the complete, the imperfect to the perfect. Everything in Jesus is upward. Everything outside Jesus is downward. An African after he was converted renamed himself ‘After.’ Everything to him was ‘After’- after death, after sin, after sorrow, after frustration, after alienation. Now everything had promise in it-had a future. In sin there is no future-it is the way of decay and death. Jesus is the Yes to all the promises of God made everywhere. There are thirty-three thousand promises in the Scriptures, and Jesus is the Yes to every one of them. He writes ‘Yes’ in His own blood on every promise. If you come in His name, you can have them cashed in experience.”
E. Stanley Jones, in His Promises Daily Devotional
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