The Infallibility of God’s Covenant (Psalm 89:34-37)
When David committed adultery and murder together, God was very angry with him. How could a man so loved and so protected by God be such a swift double offender? Well, that’s how unreliable man could be. God was very bitter so He sent Prophet Nathan to pronounce judgment immediately. But, David’s sins were no match to God’s love, so He found it impossible to close His eyes to His sworn agreement to establish David’s throne forever. Are you looking for how God fulfilled this covenant? Look no further: ever wonder why Jesus was called ‘son of David?’ Yes, God kept David’s lineage until Jesus was born; and, isn’t Jesus’ throne an everlasting one? Check in Isaiah chapter 9 verses 6 and 7.
No, God is incapable of breaking His covenant. Look at what He says in Psalm 89 verse 34: “my covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” In Jeremiah chapter 33 verses 20 and 21, God says “..if you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season, then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne..”
Before 2008, some entities in the US were deemed to be too big to fail. Giants like GM Motors, City Bank, etc., were worshiped by the world as too big to fail. Real estate was seen as haven for investors because the values would always go up and never down. In 2008, man’s hopelessly fallible nature was revealed to the whole world with a rude shock. Oops, real estate was not so real after all, and, but for the government’s intervention, the likes of GM Motors would be long forgotten today. Man needs to look beyond man for entities that are too Big to fail –they are not in this world. Only our Almighty God is too Big to fail.
Has God made a covenant with you? Is the covenant failing? It’s not God, it’s you! In law, an acceptance is a necessary condition for the establishment of a contract. If an offer is made but not accepted, there is no contract. However, once an acceptance is signed, even the offeror cannot change the offer. But there’s the phenomenon of counter offer. If the offeree decides to say that ‘I accept based on conditions’, then a counter offer has been made and the original offeror becomes the new offeree. Our learned colleagues should pardon me if I have committed legal language offences here, but the point I am trying to make is that we are not able to give conditions to God and expect His covenant to be kept, because that would constitute a counter offer which God will not accept. So, when God says I will help you choose your husband, do you say ‘provided he is tall, well-built and rich’?
But there’s a category of people that God cannot afford to overlook. When God says go, they go, and when He says come, they come. When He says ‘give me that money’, they surrender the money. No arguments. David was so faithful to God. I do not remember any Bible character who praised God like him, so, when he sinned, his offences angered God but their enormities were incapable of erasing God’s covenant. Do you love God? Are you always happy to do His bidding? There are endless covenants for you that are unbreakable; yes, unbreakable. No matter what the devil does, you will prosper (Proverbs 13:21), you will succeed (Joshua 1:7), you will make it (Deuteronomy 8:18), you are protected (Numbers 14:9), divine health is your inheritance (Exodus 15:26), your children cannot beg bread (Psalm 37:25), you cannot die young (Proverbs 3:16), you will overcome your troubles (Psalm 34:19), you will.. Oh, I wish I had more space.
Please read those few Bible passages and may God bless your week!
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