Seize the Moment – Day 625
Covenant Promises!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, December 2.
Have you ever been metaphorically stabbed in the back, in word or deed? I don’t know about you, but I prefer to be told to my face if there is an issue so that I can either repent, seek clarification, or agree to disagree on an issue.
God told His covenant people that He would let them know quickly, and to their face, if He had an issue with them. So often we think of the promises of God as only blessings, but the promises also come with warnings, as Moses explained in Deuteronomy 7:9-10:
Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face.
Did you hear the promises of God?
Every promise of God is right and true and in accordance with God’s covenant character! God is faithful to those who keep His covenant, which, as we have previously learned, includes people who repent by returning to God after they have been disobedient. And for those who reject God and prove disloyal to His covenant, God will repay them to their faces (Psalm 31:23; 94:2).
Seize the moment and respond to all the covenant promises of God today: “draw near to God and He will draw near to you” (James 4:8)!
God bless you!