God is faithful to his promises and his people. His covenant is far more than a set of agreements between a god and his people. God's covenant with us is a covenant of love. He will not forsake us or abandon us. He will treat us better than we deserve, just as a loving parent treats a rebellious child better than s/he deserves. We must tune our hearts to beat in honor of God as our God. We must not treat him as a good luck charm, a bellhop to bring us our every wish, or a weekly guest we occasionally invite to visit in the margins of our otherwise busy lives. What we do must be done with awareness and intention that what we have done has been done before him, to honor him! As we do these things, God is faithful. He will uphold his covenant to love us, forgive us, restore us, and empower us.
Faithful God, thank you for loving me so sacrificially and steadfastly. Thank you for keeping your promises to the Israelites and for bringing Jesus just as you promised. I trust your promise to send him back to bring me home to you. Please receive the deeds and words of this day as my thanks to you for your covenant of love with me and those who love Jesus. In of, Jesus, your gift of love, I pray. Amen.
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