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by Michelle Brinson
Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:60 NIV
Sometimes I can be so scattered. I am easily distracted. I lose focus. I can say something on Monday and by Wednesday completely forget what I said. Whenever I read Ezekiel, Chapter 16, I am reminded of my unfaithfulness to God. He has blessed me so much and yet I have gone and served other gods like pride and selfishness with the gifts He bestowed upon me. And yet despite my sinful nature, Ezekiel ends with God’s incredible mercy and faithfulness to His Word.
I’m so glad God has a much better memory than I do. He remembers the things He says and never forgets the promises He makes. In the days of Ezekiel, despite the fact that Jerusalem had forgotten all that God had done for them, He never forgot the covenant He made with His people – an everlasting covenant.
"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
Jeremiah 31: 31-34 NIV
The lesson here is that God still loves you and me even despite our unfaithfulness and the continual need to seek forgiveness. God is omnipotent. He sees everything. He knows everything. He remembers – and yet He chooses to forget.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Romans 7:15 NIV
I can relate to Paul in this passage of Scripture. I want to do good. I tell God I will do good. I will change. And yet in the very next breath I mess up. I break my promise. I forget what I’ve told Him. I can’t even remember what I’ve said.
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
Jeremiah 32:40 NIV
Sometimes it is so hard to believe just how wonderful God is. He never stops doing good. He remembers His covenant with us. He continues to be the wounded lover, but such is the height, depth, length and width of His compassion and His amazing grace. It is from everlasting to everlasting so that even when we break the covenant of His love for us - and even then - He will have us back.
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Michelle sees her marriage as a ministry and desires for it and herself to be used by God. She and her husband and son are active members of their church. She is also passionate about spreading the good news locally as well as internationally via mission trips to East Africa and wherever else the Lord leads.
Michelle is a talented writer and speaker who prays God will use her in sharing His hope and truths to those who are hurting and in need of love.
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