His Kindness and Covenant

His Kindness and Covenant, December 27
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon From the book: Faith's Checkbook

"For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." - Isaiah 54:10

ONE of the most delightful qualities of divine love is its abiding character. The pillars of the earth may be moved out of their places, but the kindness and the covenant of our merciful Jehovah never depart from His people. How happy my soul feels in a firm belief of this inspired declaration! The year is almost over, and the years of my life are growing few, but time does not change my Lord. New lamps are taking the pace of the old; perpetual change is on all things, but the Lord is the same. Force overturns the hills, but no conceivable power can affect the eternal God. Nothing in the past, the present, or the future can cause Jehovah to be unkind to me.

My soul, rest in the eternal kindness of the Lord, who treats thee as one near of kin. Remember also the everlasting covenant. God is ever mindful of it: see that thou art mindful of it too. In Christ Jesus the glorious God has pledged Himself to thee to be thy God, and to hold thee as one of His people. Kindness and covenant - dwell on these words as sure and lasting things which eternity itself shall not take from thee.

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Praise God for His kindness He shows towards us every day of our lives! The world around us is changing, years are passing by - yet, God's kindness and love towards His children will never cease, will never lessen. It will remain! It is His covenant He's made with His children. Do not mistaken this for the stern hand a Father uses to correct His children. "For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning." - Psalm 30:5. Something I learned from my mom recently, (how I love my mom, she's a woman of great wisdom and MUCH love for the Lord and her family) is that if we remain thinking on the things of the past, the way they were, the way life was "then", we can miss out on the promise that God is kind to His children, will protect His children and Has His children in His hand. We learn from the past, absolutely - but moving forward and growing in Grace and praying that Grace may abound even in our own lives - brings us to a humility that Christ gives. Amen! Agape.

"2. Resolved, to be continually endeavoring to find out some new contrivance and invention to promote the aforementioned things." - Jonathan Edwards, 70 Resolutions.