Tuesday Thought -- January 24, 2012

Good Morning Friends,

“This is what the LORD says:  ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time, then my covenant with David my servant -- and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before me -- can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.  I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.’” (Jeremiah 33:20-22)

God made a covenant with the people of Israel.  It was His agreement with them.  He would bless them and work through them to accomplish His will for mankind.  They would be His people, special to Him and precious.  It was a covenant with David and his descendants and with the priestly tribe of Levi, along with the rest of the Jews, to make them as numerous as the stars and as measureless as sand.  It was a covenant God entered into with Abraham on the basis of Abraham’s faith.

The question is:  would God keep His end of the covenant?  Could God become unfaithful to what He had promised?  What if the Jews were unfaithful to their part of the covenant, would that cause God to back out on His part, too?

God, through Jeremiah, provided the answer to that question.  God declared that His part of the covenant was as sure as day and night.  When the Jews learned to shut the sun off during the day so that it becomes night and to make the sun shine during the night so that it becomes day, then God would break His covenant!  The point is – that’s impossible!  The Jews -- or any individual human or group of humans -- could never turn night to day or day to night.  And as impossible as that is – that’s how impossible it is for God to break His word!

The Jews could count on what God promised!  So can you!  God ALWAYS keeps His word!

His, by Grace,

Steve