Covenants..

It’s a new year..the time when everyone makes out their list of resolutions..things they hope to accomplish in the upcoming year. Yet many times, at least in my life, by mid-January my list has found it’s way under my pile of stuff and I have forgotten about it. So this year, via something I heard from a friend I have decided I am not going to make any resolutions. Instead, I am going to make a covenant with God.

Psalm 89:34 says, “My covenant I will not break,

Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.”

God is talking to David here, and He promises David that He will not break the covenant He set with him. In God’s eyes, a covenant is a promise-something that is not meant to broken. David made a covenant with God to set no wicked thing before His eye. God made a covenant with Noah to never flood the earth again. And the scripture is full of more examples. So this year-2005, I am not going to write out a list of resolutions..I am going to make a covenant with God. And I am only going to make two. Perhaps you may think less of me because I only have two, but perhaps by my only having two they will not be so quickly forgotten.

1. I am going to establish a daily habit of spending time in His word and in prayer. This has been lacking in my life lately and I am going to work very hard at making this something I desire, not something I do. I am going to find my daily sustenance in His words and my joy in Him.

2. I am going to work on having an overflowing of love for others. Christ modeled love for others in everything He did and that’s how I want others to view me, but more importantly, that’s how I want God to view me.

So, there ya go. My two covenants with God. Right now-day one of 2005 I commit them to God with those of you who actually read this blog as my witness. My prayer is that come this time next year, I won’t look back and wonder where I went wrong, but see growth and change in my life. And I pray that as you make out your list of resolutions you commit to following them.

Just a thought..

Amanda