The covenant of grace

The covenant of grace

Today marks the beginning of British summer time. Does this fulfils the injunction of Genesis 8:22?

Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Does it give the indication of the assurance we have in Christ Jesus?

Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

As Christians we are covenant children, covenant people. We carry the mantle of God through Jesus Christ.

Exodus 24:8

And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

Mat 26:28

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

This multidisciplinary and multidimensional spiritual ark stay with us though invisible to the human eye. It propels our success, it drives our passion and it sustains our resilience in the troubled world. We stay calm like Jesus Christ did on the troubled sea. And when our attention is drawn to the turbulence, we respond with our God given authority and say peace be still. To all challenges facing you today, I say peace be still in the name of Jesus.Lev 26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. Psalm 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

As covenant people we use the concept of covenant as an organising principle for Christian theology, our theology. These include our theology of worship, our theology of faith our theology of grace and all that make up our songs and sayings.

The great implication of this though is the circle of our service to God; Seed time and harvest time. We sow continuously in work and worship, in seed and substance, in prayer and praises. Indeed we sow and continually sow our ourselves, our lives and our all. consequently, we reap till the end of time. Seed time and harvest time will never cease. This is the covenant of grace in Christ Jesus. Let us pray.