Covenant Love

Jeremiah 31-32; 1 John 4 

“’The time is coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers…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…’Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,’ declares the Lord, ‘will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.’”

Jeremiah 31:31-33, 35, 36

God initiates and keeps covenant with his people. Through Christ, we have been invited into a new covenant with God. This covenant, like the consistency of the seasons and the movement of the planets, is continually before God. While we move in and out of relationships and friendships, God’s covenant relationships are consistent and sure. His promises to us in Christ are secure because of who he is as our covenant-keeping God. In every season of life, God’s love for us will not change.

Will we respond to God with the same consistent, covenant love?

Will we love others the same way?

“Lord Jesus, your love is transforming me, for your glory.”