You'll be sorry, I can promise you that. This kind of promise builds fear in us rather than hope. For others, trusting promises is difficult because of experiences with people who have been unfaithful to their promises. Repeated experiences with broken promises make it difficult for us to trust any promise maker. God is a promise maker.
Scripture is rich with the language of promise.
But because of our negative experiences with promises we may find ourselves responding to God's promises with fear and skepticism. Fortunately, God is not like other promise-maker we have known. God's promises are an opportunity for us to learn about a new and trustworthy future. The promises of God can give us the hope and strength to persevere through the recovery process. Even though fear and distrust make it difficult for us to allow God's promises to nurture and sustain us, we can count on God to keep his promises.