GOD’S AGREEMENT IS NEVER-ENDING.
"I have found David, My servant, I will steady him with My hand, and strengthen him with My arm. Wicked people will not defeat him, My loyalty and love will be with him, My love will watch over him FOREVER, My agreement with him will NEVER END."
(Psalm 89:20-28)
Some Christians seem to have this "idea" about God, which they liken to how humans often respond to each other, but God isn’t like us. God doesn’t act like we do!
Even among Christians, when one wrongs another, they get wronged right back! It is NOT how we should act, but sometimes we act that way toward others! God never acts that way toward us!
We enter into an agreement with another, and if things go bad, we want to get out of our agreement, we go to great lengths to get out of our agreement, and the other often fights back, but, sometimes they go
to court and sometimes they both "mutually agree" to terminate the agreement!
God is NOT like that. In this, God doesn’t act like we think He does, or think He should. God is loyal! God is faithful! God remains true! God doesn’t go back on His word! When God promises, God fulfills, always!
Look at this entire passage in your Bible. It
is a "view of David" from God’s prospective. We know David loved The Lord. God loved him and made Him a King over Israel. But, David is guilty of Lust, of Greed, of Deception, and he is also guilty of Murder!
Yet of David God says, "Wicked people will
not defeat him, My loyalty and love will be with
him, My love will watch over him forever, My
agreement with him will never end." (Psalm 89:22-28)
God’s love for David was continual, even though David sinned. God’s love for Moses was always there, even though Moses sinned. God’s love for Peter was always true, even when Peter turned his back on Jesus!
Somehow we think that if we turn away from God, that God turns away from us! But, it’s NOT about our faithfulness, or about our obedience, nor is it about our "works", or about our "faith."
The Bible is a Record Book, detailing God’s
faithfulness to His people. God never failed
His people, and God will never fail His children!
Christians often are guilty of saying 2 things,
(first) that it’s all by, and because of, Jesus.
We proclaim, "Jesus did it all for us." And we
believe Jesus "opened the door" and "finished
His work" on the cross,.. all for us,.. and He did! And then, (secondly) we quickly say, "But I must continue to the end, or God will cast me out."
Christ DID do it all for us. And our Faith could be
called a work, if you wish to call it that. Faith is
also a gift, given to each of us by God, our creator.
Paul asks, "What do you have that you have not received?" (I Cor. 4:7)
We seem to be always trying to put OURSELF
and what WE do as the main point. Jesus is and
should be the main point! He obtained salvation for
us. He finished His work. He fulfilled the law for
us. All that we need to do is to believe ALL that He
has done for us. He saved us. We don’t save
ourselves!
Jesus did it all for us. It’s a finished work. All that you have to do is to beleive that all of it it was done for you. Often, however, we seem to think that WE brought it about, or that WE obtained it, or that WE are the reason that God loves us. WE think that WE make it work. WE think: "what I do makes it
real."
Yes, each of us has a free will, we can choose
to take His Gift of Salvation, or we can choose
to NOT accept it. We are not robots. We have a
chance to take salvation or not. Agreed?
Yet we still seem to think that what WE do has
some magical power. WE think that our part
(believing) is somehow JUST as important as what Jesus did! WE seem to think that if WE fail to obey, that God will go back on His word and take back His free gift! That is false!
You entered into an agreement with God, by
your free will. The promise is "when you believe,
it becomes yours." God promises that "Nothing
will ever separate us from God." (Rom. 8:39)
Yet WE think that we have the power to turn
away and to lose it. But, GOD has promised
NEVER to leave us. (Hebrews 13:5) So, why do WE
think WE can do anything to make God leave?
"For He that has begun a good work inside of
you WILL BRING IT TO COMPLETION."
(Phil. 1:6) God has promised to complete His
work within us. So, how can WE stop God
from completeing what He has started within us?
As long as we continue to doubt that He will
always be inside of us,... as long as we doubt
that He will preserve us and/or keep us,.. as
long as we continue to think that God will take
away our salvation,.. in spite of His promises,..
then we will continue to be USELESS and
POWERLESS for God.
Satan wants us to keep doubting. He wants us to
wonder, and to question. He knows that we ’ll have no power, no effectiveness, as long as we doubt God, or doubt who we are.
But, God wants us to KNOW who we are, to
KNOW that He will never leave us, to KNOW
that we are saved, that we’re Children of God,
for only THEN will we attempt great things for God!
ONLY when we truly KNOW who we are, and how much God loves us, ONLY then will we have the Joy and Peace and Power that He has promised! God can only work through His Children when they KNOW who they are, when
they know God will NEVER leave them, nor EVER fail them.
Look at the story about the Lost Sheep, Who
goes astray? The sheep (followers), and who
leaves the flock and goes in search of the Lost
Sheep? The Shepherd (Jesus).
Haven’t you heard that God is the Hound of
Heaven? He will hound you and keep on your
tail, until you repent and turn to Him. Once you
have turned, He will never let you go! And if you
wander away, He will hound you until you turn
back to Him for forgiveness!
Once we believe, we are His Child! Birthed
because of our faith. You think you can stop
being His child? You think you can Un-Birth
yourself? You are His Child,.. Forever!
You think God will ever turn His back on you?
After He DIED in your Place? After He Paid
for ALL of your sins, that He will ever forsake
you, or ever GIVE UP on you and me?
God is Loyal to us! He will never forget us!
The amazing thing is: GOD remains Loyal to
you and me, even if we are NOT loyal to Him!
God is BOUND by His Love, and by His FOREVER
AGREEMENT. God is bound by His Promises!
God can NOT go back on His words! God has
Promised! God will NOT fail to keep His word!
Also, God has given us a PROOF that He
will never give up on us! God has given us
a portion of Himself. God has given us His
Spirit, to Live inside of us, to be with us,
Forever! That "part of Him" that He has given
to us, is His Pledge, that He will never let
us go, that He will come and get us, that
we belong to Him, forever,.. and He’ll never
take His Holy Spirit from us! That is His
Guarantee! Believe it!
By Gary Christensen
gmpc7@comcast.net
