I
will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you
throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and
to your descendants after you. I will give to you and to your descendants after
you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession; and I will be their God. Genesis 17:7-8
An everlasting commitment between God and His people is what that
scripture passage is all about. Elohim means strength or power. This Elohim is the God that is first spoken
of in Genesis 1:1… In the beginning God (Elohim)
created the heavens and the earth. This means that He has supreme power,
sovereignty, and this covenant commitment that He is faithful to keep will last
forever. Our God is truly an awesome God—above all gods. He is worthy of our
love and our commitment to Him. He gave the land He promised to Abraham in this
passage to Abraham’s descendants for eternity. Is this the physical land of
Israel? Or is it a spiritual land—heaven? Or both? Only God knows that. It has
been thousands of years since Abraham received this promise from God…and the
Israelites are again in the same land. That is quite a promise. There have been
battles almost continually for that territory, but God’s people have prevailed
and now for the most part it is theirs. Is God their God…and is He ours? I see
that as a personal question…a personal commitment. Many in Israel today see God
as the God of their nation, not as their personal God with whom they have a
relationship. Christianity is all about “relationships.”
RSVP: Jesus is
reminding us today of the covenant that He made with Abraham—an everlasting
covenant between Him and Abraham’s descendants. Are you a spiritual descendant
of Abraham’s? How can you respond to Jesus today as He invites us to enter into
a relationship around His Table?
Prayer~ Jesus,
You have promised in the book of Jerimiah that when You return You will
establish a new covenant with Israel. "Behold, days are coming,"
declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with
their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,"
declares the LORD. "But this is the covenant which I will make with the
house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My
law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people." Jeremiah 31:31-33. I claim that promise for
myself, too. You are my God and I shall be part of Your people. Thank you for this
promise.
© 2014 by Mickey
M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All
scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise
noted.
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