Trusting God's Covenant (Lev. 26:40-46)

11/20/2008 8:31 PM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                              Focus:  Trusting His Covenant

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Leviticus 26:40-46

            Message of the verses:  “40 ¶  ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—41  I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity, 42  then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.  43  ‘For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.

44  ‘Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.  45  ‘But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.’"  46  These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai.”

            The first thing that I would like to say about this section is that all of these things did happen to Israel, for this was written about 1000 years before the first dispersion of Israel and 1570 years before the second dispersion of Israel.  Some of these covenants that God made with Israel were conditional covenants, but the covenant that was made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and then later on with David were unconditional covenants and God will keep these covenants because of His Holy Name.  In the underlined portion of verse forty-four this is stated.

            The physical bodies of Israel was circumcised, but their hearts were not circumcised as seen in verse forty-one, and this was one of the biggest reasons that they did not follow the Lord and His Laws and were eventually taken out of their land.

            I truly believe that God brought Israel back into their land in May of 1948, and I also believe that that was the beginning of the last days before Jesus Christ will return to planet earth to set up His Kingdom, which according to Revelations will last 1000 years, and this Kingdom was promised to Israel in the Old Testament times, only the length of time was not spelled out. 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  It might be construed that a believer does not have to worry about sinning because after all God will forgive them, however this argument was written about by Paul in Romans six and he writes,
“May it never be!”  God will keep His Word and His covenants that He has made and I am to follow the Lord each and every day in order to live a life that is pleasing to Him.  I am thankful that God’s Word is true and there is no error in it and that I can depend on it for eternal life and also strength to live out each day of my life, and when I fail I am to confess my sin to the Lord, knowing that He will forgive my sins, but also knowing what it cost Him to forgive my sins, the death of His only Son.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1. I want to trust the covenant that God has given in His Word.

Memory verses for the week:                                  Romans 6:1-6

1. What shall we say then?  Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
2. May it never be!  How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3. Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death.
4. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5. For if we have become united with Him in likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6. knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

11/20/2008 9:01 PM