​A COVENANT OF LOVE

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.”  John 3:16
 
For God so loved the world that He gave…and He gave…and He gave.
That is the message the Bible brings us from beginning to end.  It sounds simple enough.  Yet few of us really comprehend it.
 
We can understand the idea of a God of power.  We can understand a God Who desires to be served.  But an Almighty God Who loves us so much that He desires, above all, to give to us?  That can be hard to believe.
 
For thousand of years, God has been working to drop the revelation of His love into the hearts of men.  He’s made loving promises of blessing and protection.  But He’s always faced that same obstacle – human beings who just couldn’t bring themselves to believe those promises were true.
 
The story of Abram is a perfect example.  He wasn’t accustomed to the idea of a God who gives.  He’s grown up as a worshiper of the moon.  Then he encountered El Shaddai, the greatest Being of all.  The one Almighty God.  And the first thing this El Shaddai wanted to do was give to him.
 
God’s promises so astounded Abram that he couldn’t believe them.  Lord, “how can I know I’m going to receive these things?”  Gen 15:8
 
God answered him by cutting a blood covenant with him.  That covenant settled forever any question Abram could ever have about God’s love and loyalty.  Once blood had been shed, he knew God meant what He said.
 
God did the same thing for you.  He cut a blood covenant with you.  And He sacrificed His own Son to do it.  Jesus’ broken body and shed blood have become the eternal proof of God’s love for you.
 
Through Communion He urges you to remember them again and again so that when your faith in His promises begins to waver, you “might have a strong consolation.”  Hebrews 6:18.
 
Get a revelation of God’s love for you by meditating on the covenant He’s made with you.  Get out the bread and the cup.  Go before the Lord with them and take Communion thinking about the body and blood of Jesus that enables you to be a blood-covenant member of the family of Almighty God.  Let them settle forever the question of God’s love for you.  You’ll never again have to doubt His promises one you believe in His love.
 
Read the Lord’s Covenant Promise to Abram in Genesis chapter 15.