June 30
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
BACK THEN FORWARD
"Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant" Ezek.
16:60
Notwithstanding our sins, the Lord is still faithful in His love to us.
He looks back. See how He remembers those early days of ours when He
took us into covenant with Himself, and we gave ourselves over to Him.
Happy days those! The Lord does not twit us with them, and charge us
with being insincere. No, He looks rather to His covenant with us than
to our covenant with Him. There was no hypocrisy in that sacred
compact, on His part, at any rate. How gracious is the Lord thus to
look back in love!
He looks forward also. He is resolved that the covenant shall not fail.
If we do not stand to it, He does. He solemnly declares, "I will
establish unto thee an everlasting covenant." He has no mind to draw
back from His promises. Blessed be His name, He sees the sacred seal,
"the blood of the everlasting covenant," and He remembers our Surety,
in whom He ratified that covenant, even His own dear Son; and therefore
He rests in His covenant engagements. "He abideth faithful; he cannot
deny himself."
O Lord, lay this precious word upon my heart, and help me to feed upon
it all this day!