God’s Covenant-Keeping Nature

Jeremiah 31-32; 1 John 4 

“‘This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,’ declares the Lord.  ‘I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people…’ This is what the Lord says, ‘he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night…Only if these decrees vanish from my sight…will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.’”

Jeremiah 31:33, 3536

We serve a covenant-keeping God. Even as God declared that he would make a new covenant with his people, a covenant established by Jesus Christ and his shed blood, God declared that he had not rejected Israel as a nation. To underline his point, God pointed to the laws he had established in the universe to govern planetary movement. Only if these laws governing the sun, moon, and stars ceased to exist, would God reject Israel as a nation. Amazing! After two thousand years, the re-establishment of Israel as a nation is no coincidence. It is God keeping his promises.

Will we also be covenant-keepers with God?

“Lord Jesus, thank you for your covenant with me. I too desire to be faithful to you and our covenant together.”