Are you in a covenant relationship with the Lord?

God didn’t not just create us to exist, He created us to have a relationship with Him. It is like a marriage. Compare it to a marriage of two people very much in love, with that of a casual friendship. The marriage relationship is far different from that of the friendship. In the marriage they know each other intimately. He can look at her and see into her heart and see how she is truly feeling. She looks at him and knows that she can give him the respect he deserves, because he has her best interest at heart and would give his life for her. He would do that not because she has done something to earn it, but just simply because he loves her that much. It is the same with God. He sent His Son to die and take the punishment for the things you and I have done wrong, not because we deserved it, but because He loves us that much. But God is a gentleman and He does not force His love on us. He has given us a choice to love Him truly or to reject Him. Here is where it gets tricky and this is why I am asking you about your relationship with the Lord. A man can have a marriage contract with a woman and he looks at it like a contract only. People assume that contracts are meant to be broken. So if he chooses… he can walk away and leave that woman for another. It should not be the case, marriage should be a covenant. That is different. A covenant is never meant to be broken. It is a binding agreement where two become one flesh. If they separate, the flesh is being ripped apart.

So let’s look at it in the sense of the relationship we should have with our creator. He wants a covenant relationship with us. He wants us to choose Him over everything else in life. But it is our choice to make. If we give our lives to Him fully, the end is eternal life with Him in Heaven. But if not, after we die we will have Hell to live in, for the rest of eternity. God cannot exist with sin. It separates us from Him.  The Bible says that if we even look at another human being, with lust then we are as much as committing adultery. If we look at the world and lust after it and what it has to offer, then we are putting it above God and it is like adultery to Him. When we are born on this Earth we are born into sin, because of the fall of Adam and Eve. There is not one person, other than Jesus Himself, who has not sinned. But thankfully Jesus took the punishment for our sins so that we don’t have to have the separation from God that sin creates. But, if we do not ask Jesus to forgive us and cleanse us from that sin, and then ask Him to live within us and make us new people, then we remain with that separation. If on the other hand we ask Jesus to come and live inside of us, our old sinful person is re-born into a new child of God. And the Bible says that with that adoption we are given a home in Heaven.  It is God’s covenant promise to us.

Friend no one is promised tomorrow. I could have easily died from the encephalitis I had in February. I had a car accident years ago and should have died from that. For that matter, I could get run over today. The good news is that know without a doubt what would happen to me if that were to take place. I would go to Heaven!! I don’t fear it, I am excited for it. Does that mean I want to die at this moment, no of course not. I am a wife and mother and have people relying on me. But if I would go… man what awaits me is too fantastic to put into words.

So back to my original question. Have you ever truly given your life, fully, to the Lord? I am not asking because I think you are a bad person. I don’t know who is reading this, so absolutely not. But I also don’t know your heart of hearts. “Good people” can go to Hell in the end, if they do not have a relationship with God. Heaven is for those who have a relationship. Only a relationship allows it. Sin separates even “good people” from God. Even if I would know that you are a good person, I may not know if you are a child of God. I don’t know if you are in relationship with Him. All I would know is what you may have shared with me, of your life. So I have to ask, because I care about you.

If you are not in a relationship, it is an easy fix. It is like a wedding. You say I do. Sort of. You first ask Him to forgive your sins, then you ask Jesus to live inside of you. “I do take you Jesus as my covering of sin, as my protector, healer, defender, lover of my soul. I take you as the love of my life and my friend. I take you as the one who loves me. I promise to be true to you and to choose you over all other loves in life. I promise to be faithful and not seek out other things to love more. I promise to live a life devoted to you and will try, with your help, to refrain from the sins that could separate me from you. Please forgive me for the mistakes I have made. Even as hard as I try, I will most likely make future mistakes, but I know that I can ask you to forgive me and that you will, because of our covenant relationship.” That is it in a nutshell. Now of course you do not need to say all of those things to form that relationship. I was just being poetic. You just need to speak from your heart to God and He will hear you.

So again I ask… Are you in covenant relationship… God is waiting for you?