LifeLink Devotions for Monday, September 14, 2026

One of the great joys of being a grandfather is to pay attention to what the grandkids like and then plan to do things with them according to those likes. This summer has been a perfect example. Several of my grandkids truly love fishing and golfing. So I take it upon myself to plan fishing trips and golf outings and then invite them to participate in them with me. But what I fail to recognize sometimes is that my invitation is perceived by them to be a promise. So if I talk to them on a Friday and say on Monday we could go golfing, they hear that as a guarantee that we’re going golfing on Monday. Now if it rains they understand but there’s not very many legitimate excuses for not fulfilling the promise.

You see the promise made on Friday becomes the objective for Monday. It captivates their thinking. It fills them with hope. They lay out their clothing and their golf clubs and their water bottles the night before because they fully expect that the promise will be fulfilled.

God does the same thing for us with the one difference being that there will never be a promise that will ever be broken for any reason.

As we continue our study looking at the various ways the phrase “ on that day” is used in Scripture We come to a place in the book of Joshua where it’s used multiple times. It’s the story of the people of Israel conquering the promised land. They have captured a large portion of it already and many of the tribes have already taken up residence. One man named Caleb comes to the nation’s leader Joshua and makes a request based on a promise that was given to him. Forty years earlier, when the nation failed to enter the promised land the first time because of the unfaithfulness of the people, Caleb had been recognized by Moses as a faithful servant, and Caleb reminds Joshua what Moses had said.

“And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’”

Then a few verses later Caleb reminds Joshua that on that day it was the Lord who had given him that promise through Moses and that this was the day that it would be fulfilled. So Joshua awards the land that Caleb had walked on as one of the twelve spies forty years earlier. God always fulfills his promises.

There’s a great lesson in this for us today. How many of us are actually living in the constant hope that God will fulfill every promise he ever gave us in his word? I think we probably have to admit that we fall short of living in that kind of hope. Caleb carried that hope for forty years. We seem to forget after forty minutes. And yet we have the opportunity to look into his word every day and remind ourselves of his promises. The promise for peace. The promise for contentment and joy. The promise for the provisions for every part of our life. The promise for a mansion being prepared for us in glory and that Jesus is coming soon to take us there. The promise that once he does there’ll be no more tears, no more sorrow, no more heartbreak. The promise that when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be.

My friends it’s time to start focusing on the promises of God rather than the problems of today. May the joy of Jesus swell up from the springs of living water in your life as you focus on the promises of God and the faithfulness of God to fulfill them on that day.

Pastor John