Mindful of the Covenant
Currently Listening: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Score)
by Mychael & Jeff Danna
So Psalm 111 is loaded with good promises too. Jeez, this little search could fill volumes. Anyways:
He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: He will ever be mindful of his covenant. He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverent is his name. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Hebrews 8 continues the subject of God’s covenant with His people, detailing the promises of His mercy and the coming of the Holy Spirit to believers:
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises… For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
And lastly, Psalm 141, for someone working 60 hours a week and not really seeing anyone or doing anything outside of his job, is a good reminder for what God is not only capable of doing, but what He really does for us every day!
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Nor shall my soul be destitute when it is filled with Him. Amen.
