- A Covenant to be God
Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
This is what we need: a God, a God who will be God to us. We who believe in Jesus have the faith of Abraham, and so we are of his seed. We have this promise. God, the Lord, establishes a covenant with us. God makes a covenant with us unconditionally: He will be our God whether we will be His people or not. We don’t have to wonder, doubt, or just hope. We know. We can be sure. God is our God all the time. He is our God whenever we need Him, and we always need Him. He is our God even when we don’t feel like we need Him. We may have separated ourselves from God, but He won’t separate Himself from us. We may wander off intentionally or unintentionally into a “far country,” but our Father is still waiting at the gate for us to return home where we belong.
God may seem distant at times, but He is not far off. He is always near, just waiting for us to call upon His Name. We may not sense or feel His Presence, but, thank God, it doesn’t depend on our fickle emotions; it depends on His Promise. He is there because He promises to be there as our God, not because feel God. We take it by faith. We believe, and then we see.
And this covenant is everlasting. The promise will not fail. Jesus never fails. God does not take a vacation or take a day off or just quit being God. He is everlasting and so is His life that lives and rules within. The promise is eternal, and so by faith we are eternal. This body we live in will decay and die; this earth we live on will pass away; everything we see will come to an end. But the eternal live within will never pass away. The Life just keeps going on forever without end. The covenant promise is everlasting. Change and decay in all around I see, but God’s life and God’s promise in us keeps growing stronger and livelier. We have an eternal promise.