Thoughts such as: "You broke your promise to the students, so I don't trust you." Also: "We will support charities, but in fact you cut their support and want to give tax cuts to the wealthy."
As well as: "You have proved consistently you can't be trusted with the economy."
Then there's the new party: "Well you are just a one-issue group of xenophobes."
The cynic within me sadly speaks again and again with the words: "You just can't trust any of them, they all break their promises."
I wonder, am I alone in thinking like this? Cynicism sadly takes the place of simple trust, as human governments fail again and again.
Sometimes these promises are broken through no deliberate fault on the part of the politicians. I am sure nobody who comes into politics does so with the intention of breaking promises.
However, thankfully, there is one in whom I have put my faith and trust whose good government I can fully trust. My experience of walking in the way of Jesus has been one where his promise that, "never would he leave me, never would he forsake me" has been proven time and time again. Even if it has meant that it took me a while to realise that his apparent silence does not mean his absence.
It is often in our most desperate of times that the reality of God's faithfulness to his promises are proved. Unseen and unrecognised, every day the sun rises and sets, crops are sown and harvested and our planet continuously produces life.
Perhaps this Harvest Festival you would like to thank God for keeping all his promises to you this year. Maybe even call at your local church to inquire on how you can get to know better this promise keeping God. I know who gets my vote.
