They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces toward it, saying, ‘Come and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten. Jeremiah 50:5
Covenants are made every day all over the world. In modern times covenants are called contracts or treaties. It is the agreement of two or more different parties on some issue. There is an agreement as to how each should act and what the consequences are if they do not do as expected. Most contracts today are temporary with a very specific start and end date.
Prophesying about Israel, Jeremiah records God saying that His people in captivity will seek a way back to Zion (Jerusalem). They will head back there to join with God in a perpetual covenant that will never be forgotten.
The world makes covenants all the time, but as fast as they are made, many are broken. One side or the other chooses not to hold up their end of the agreement. Most commonly this can be seen between two nations and war occurs because of the break in the treaty.
Any person who chooses to believe in the saving work of Jesus begins to make a covenant with God. Beginning this is easy and many do it.
However, a covenant means that one must uphold one’s side of the covenant no matter how easy or difficult it may be. Just as people, businesses, governments and nations are quick to break covenants, many believers are quick to break their covenant with God. Some are deceived into living in a sinful lifestyle. Others purposely choose to walk away from the commandments of God and live in sinful ways.
Every believer needs to make a perpetual, never-ending covenant with God, to live for Him and abide by His rules with no exceptions. You are already in covenants with different people or businesses. You made a covenant with purchase of a house, or rent of a house, or purchase of a car, or some other covenant.
Choose today to make a covenant with God and choose to not break that covenant. God will remain faithful to you and not break His side, but you must also be faithful to Him. Allow the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you, giving you strength to know and obey all of His commands to you.
Today I pray that you will know Jesus as your Lord and Savior; that you will make a perpetual covenant with God; that you will not break your covenant with God; and that you will live for God with your whole life.
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“Every believer needs to make a perpetual, never-ending covenant with God, to live for Him and abide by His rules with no exceptions”
Amen! Very true.
For sure. But they may not forget to make that covenant with the right God, the God of Abraham and the God of Jesus, and not a sort of three-headed god like the trinity.
I don’t serve a three-headed God, but if you read all of Scripture God is three in one. There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. All are God, One God, not three, though three characters of God. To say that Jesus is not God is to take away His divinity and that He said that He and the Father are One. He was also there at the beginning and created the heavens and the earth. The Holy Spirit has to also be God since He can be everywhere and in everyone at the same time.