Our Covenant Keeping God
We should constantly praise God for His faithfulness and for the fact that He always keeps what He has promised us. We can count on what the Lord tells us and what He has told us in His Word. This should bring much joy and hope to our heart every day. This is especially true when it comes to the covenants that God makes with us. A covenant is a solemn agreement, a contract, if you will. When God enters a covenant with us, He takes it very seriously, and He never fails to keep up His part of the agreement, even if we fail Him, at times. God made a covenant at Bethel, when Jacob was fleeing from Esau and going to his relatives to find a wife. God promised that He would bless him with the same covenant He made with Abraham and Isaac. (Genesis 28:15) God told Jacob He was with him, and He would be with him wherever he went. He assured Jacob that He would not leave him until He had done what He promised him He would do. That shows us the nature and character of our Father in heaven.
When we come to know Jesus as our Lord and Savior, God makes a covenant with us. We are not saved by our own works. We are saved by God's grace, as a free gift, after we turn from our sins and put our faith in Jesus as our Lord. The covenant of salvation is similar to the covenant God made with Jacob. He comes to be with us as the Holy Spirit indwells us, and He promises to stay with us wherever we go. He gives us the assurance that He will bring us to heaven to be with Him. Then, in the process God promises that He will not leave us until He has accomplished what He has promised us. That is what God inspired Paul to write for us in Philippians 1:6, "For I am confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." Why was Paul confident? He knew that God was a covenant keeping God. I pray that we all know this about God and we are resting in His covenant faithfulness while we are being faithful to serve Him all of our days in the ways He leads us.
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Tomorrow, I intend to read Genesis 31-33.