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Morning and Evening

August 13, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"And I will remember My covenant." — Genesis 9:15 · KJV

Mark the form of the promise. God does not say, "When you look upon the bow and remember My covenant, then I will not destroy the earth"; He gloriously rests it not on our memory, which is fickle and frail, but on His own, which is infinite and unchanging: "The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant." Oh, it is not my remembering God, but God's remembering me, that is the ground of my safety; not my laying hold of His covenant, but His covenant's laying hold of me. Glory be to God! The whole bulwark of salvation is secured by divine power, and even the lesser towers, which we might think left to man, are guarded by almighty strength. Even the remembering of the covenant is not left to our memories — for we might forget, but our Lord cannot forget the saints He has graven on the palms of His hands. It is with us as with Israel in Egypt: the blood was on the lintel and the two side-posts, but the Lord did not say, "When you see the blood I will pass over you," but, "When I see the blood I will pass over you." My looking to Jesus brings me joy and peace, but it is God's looking to Jesus that secures my salvation and that of all His elect, since it is impossible for our God to look on Christ, our bleeding Surety, and then be angry with us for sins already punished in Him. No, it is not left even to us to be saved by remembering the covenant. There is no mingled fabric here — not a single thread of the creature mars the cloth; it is not of man, nor by man, but of the Lord alone. We should remember the covenant, and by divine grace we shall; but the hinge of our safety does not hang there — it is God's remembering us, not our remembering Him; and so the covenant is an everlasting covenant.