The scriptures that stood out to me today was Jeremiah 33:20-21 "Thus says the Lord: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.”
Observation: God has a covanant with us and there is no way for us to break that covanant. The first covanant was with Abraham when God told Abraham to get the animals. Then the covanant given again to the people of Israel after they came out of Egypt. Then later God promised that David will always have a son on the throne. All these promises and covanants that God made are conditional. The condition for getting forgiveness and being saved thought the new covanant in Jesus' blood is that we believe and accept him as our Lord and savor.
Application: With the knowledge of the promises and covanants this passage is telling us God if faithful to keep up his side of the covanant as long as we do our part. Not that I am saying that this is a works based system because it's not. It's more like God tells us that we need to walk to a door with a lock on it and he will open it for us. That door will not open until we do our part and walk to that door. He is not going to unlock it and open it wide and wait for us to find our way there. Our application is not just that he is faithful but also that God wants to bless us and all we need to do is listen to that still small voice so that we can know where to go to find that blessing.
Prayer: Lord, help us hear your voice and you direction for our lives. Your plans are so much greater then ours. I thank you for all the blessings that you have poured out on us thus fare and ask that you open our eyes to the promises and how to fulfil those promises you have yet to pour out on us.
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