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Establishing the Covenant with God

by Jerry Ousley  
4/11/2014 / Christian Living



I'll never forget my final salvation experience. I use the word final because I had been raised to know God. During my childhood often I would go to the altar during an invitation. When I hit my teenage years my life took a turn to the wild side (to explain further, I had fallen out of fellowship with God and needed to rededicate myself to Him not "get saved" again).

What finally brought my heart to the Lord was, believe it or not, a girl. I had begun dating this young lady and I liked her very much. She was a devoted Christian. I went to church with her and even at the age of fifteen I thought she was the one for me. I was falling head over heels in puppy love - you know; the kind that makes a longed eared dog trip and fall all over those ears. That was me. I imagined hearts floating around my head and it seemed that cupid had used his biggest arrow which protruded from my backside.

I felt guilty because I pretended to be okay with the Lord. In my heart I felt that I could no longer put up this faade and so I determined to make things right with Jesus Christ. I did. Oddly enough, not long after that this girl, whom I thought I'd spend the rest of my life adoring, broke up with me. My world was crushed. Strangely, God began comforting my heart. I've witnessed many "salvation experiences" in which men came to the Lord because of a woman (in most of those cases that commitment was the faade) and as soon as something happened between them he was gone and no longer serving God. I'd say you've seen your share of those types of experiences too.

This was different. I had really committed myself and the loss of my girl didn't sway me from serving Him. In fact, I began absorbing the Bible, reading books by Christian authors, and praying incessantly. I had genuinely made a covenant with God and there was no turning back for me. I got over the girl, but never over God.

In this series of Establishing the Covenant, although we have dealt with other relationships and clauses of our covenant, I have said often that God should always come first, and He should. Of course we have to make up our minds and establish it with ourselves; we have to be committed to our families, other people, and the Church. But our one on one relationship with the Lord must always be placed at the very top of the list.

We fail at times we fail ourselves and we fail others. We fail the Church and we fail the Lord. But during those failures the covenant provides the hope we need to pick ourselves up, dust off our behinds, and go on for Him. Never should we even think about leaving Him. Why would we leave the only One who has never failed us? Oh, it may seem to us that He has but really He hasn't. We may be seeking for things that God knows will bring us harm in the long run. We are blinded by those things and because we want them so badly it may seem that God has let us down. But He hasn't because He is always looking out for our best interest.

This verbal agreement, this covenant with God is one that no court of law can ever revoke. Not one person on the face of this planet can take it away from us. Only we can remove ourselves and break the covenant with God.

Men can threaten us. They can torture, maim and wound, if not physically, certainly verbally and by their actions. But no one can remove our hope and faith in our God except us. Again, why would we even want to do that? Once we have tasted the glory of the Lord and have experienced those loving arms folding around us in times of insecurity, why would we ever want to leave Him? When we have made that type of commitment and taken on that degree of determination, we are establishing a covenant that will last for eternity. You won't find a contract, verbal or written, with those kinds of securities anywhere else I guarantee it!

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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