He Has Made With Me An Everlasting Covenant

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"Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?"   [2 Samuel 23:5]

This covenant is divine in its origin. “He has made with me an everlasting covenant.” God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with us; God who spoke the world into existence by a word; he, stooping from his majesty, takes hold of HIS hand and makes a covenant with us. Is it not a deed, the stupendous condescension of which might ravish our hearts forever if we could really understand it? “HE has made with me a covenant.” A king has not made a covenant with me—that were somewhat; but the Prince of the kings of the earth, Shaddai, the Lord All-sufficient, the Jehovah of ages, the everlasting Elohim, “He has made with me an everlasting covenant.” But notice, it is particular in its application. “Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant.” Here lies the sweetness of it to each believer. It is nought for me that he made peace for the world; I want to know whether he made peace for me! It is little that He has made a covenant, I want to know whether He has made a covenant with me. Blessed is the assurance that he has made a covenant with me! If God the Holy Spirit gives me assurance of this, then his salvation is mine, his heart is mine, he himself is mine—he is my God.  This covenant is everlasting in its duration. An everlasting covenant means a covenant which had no beginning, and which shall never, never end. How sweet amidst all the uncertainties of life, to know that “the foundation of the Lord stands sure,” (2 Timothy v2:19) and to have God’s own promise, “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” (Psalm v89:34) Like dying David, I will sing of this, even though my house be not so with God as my heart desires. Hallelujah, God bless

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