Good Morning Friends,
“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 or group -- could never turn night to day or day to
night. 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
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