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Make It Your Covenant!

Covenants?  Hmm, sounds way too restrictive! 

A covenant, just to be clear, is a solemn and binding agreement.

So who really wants to be bound to something? 

There are covenants in some neighborhoods.  You enter into such by being part of a HOA or Homeowner’s Association.  Such are designed to keep the neighborhood looking nice.  That can be a good thing.

A marriage involves a covenant, or at least that’s how it used to be viewed.  In fact, some marriage ceremonies still use wording that indicates that the couple is entering into a covenant of marriage.  This is the “through thick and thin, till death do us part” covenant stuff.  That can be a good thing. 

Would you say about a covenant that involves things of incredible value?  Would that be a good thing? 

See what covenant some people of old made to bind themselves to that which they believed had value well beyond what you could ever imagine:

“And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul.”  (2 Chr 15:12)

You might wonder where is this incredible value?

Consider the following:

“God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.”  (Acts 17:27)

“I sought the Lord, and he answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.”  (Ps 34:4)

“The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.” (Lam 3:25)

“Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”  (Matt 6:31-33)

Read those verses again. Let them wash over you.  Things are of incredible value are mentioned and they are, as the saying goes, just scratching the surface.

 

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