OT Promise 74: Remember Covenant

  1. Remember Covenant

Leviticus 26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

Once again God promises to remember the covenant He made with our patriarchs and ancestors. The Lord saved us and brought us out of the world so that He could take care of us by being our God. The Lord has remembered the promises He made, every one of them, and He looks at them Himself to make sure that they will be kept according to His word. God the Father made a covenant with us when Jesus died and rose again. He will look to that event and remember anew that He has bound Himself to that covenant promise of life and salvation.

We remember our baptism daily by repentance and faith as we visualize what the Lord did for us there. We participate in Holy Communion in remembrance of Jesus, making present, alive, active and fresh what happened once at the Cross and the Empty Tomb. We partake of the blood of the Covenant, the blood of Christ that established the covenantal loving relationship between God and us. God remembers and we are reminded. Remembering makes it real in the present moment. What happened once for our life needs to happen every moment. We have a short memory and memory lapses, but God has a long memory and remembers everything.

We can count on the Lord to meet us in our present need because of what He has done in the past and what He will surely do in the future. Every time we interact with the Lord in the Word and in prayer and in fellowship God remembers His covenant with us and reminds us of His promises.