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Morning and Evening

December 21, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant." — 2 Samuel 23:5 · KJV

This covenant is divine in its origin: "HE hath made with me an everlasting covenant." Oh, that great word "HE"! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with you — yes, that God who spoke the world into existence by a word; He, stooping from His majesty, takes hold of your hand and makes a covenant with you. Is this not a deed whose stupendous condescension might ravish our hearts for ever, if we could really grasp it? "HE hath made with me a covenant." A king has not made a covenant with me — that would be something; but the Prince of the kings of the earth, Shaddai, the Lord All-sufficient, the Yahweh of the ages, the everlasting Elohim — "He hath made with me an everlasting covenant." Notice, too, that it is particular in its application: "Yet hath He made with ME an everlasting covenant." Here lies its sweetness to each believer. It is nothing to me that He made peace for the world; I want to know whether He made peace for me. It is little that He has made a covenant; I want to know whether He has made a covenant with me. Blessed is the assurance that He has made a covenant with me! If God the Holy Spirit gives me assurance of this, then His salvation is mine, His heart is mine, He Himself is mine — He is my God. This covenant is everlasting in its duration. An everlasting covenant means one that had no beginning, and that shall never, never end. How sweet, amid all the uncertainties of life, to know that "the foundation of the Lord standeth sure," and to have God's own promise, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Like dying David, I will sing of this, though my house be not so with God as my heart desires.