Accepted the Covenant yet?

[GPiper]

The most important item on your agenda today will be to celebrate the Covenant God is offering you. If you haven't accepted it yet you'll need to do so because today you will find yourself wandering in a desert it will not be a desert that can be found on a map it will be an uncharted one caused by the unpredictability of life. The wind will howl, the sand will blow, the air will be super-heated and deep inside your heart will cry for help. Suddenly from across the shifting sands of time words spoken by Moses will become God's word for you today thousands of years later. "If, however, from there you start searching once more for Yahweh your God, and if you search for him honestly and sincerely, you will find him. You will suffer; everything I have said will befall you, but in the final days you will return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice. For Yahweh your God is a merciful God and will not desert or destroy you or forget the covenant which he made on oath with your ancestors." {Deuteronomy 4:29 - 4:30 NJB}

Hundereds of years before the Israelites began their famed journey through the wilderness Abraham entered into a Covenant with the Creator God and even when the people dis-honored it God remained true empowering them and escorting them into the land he promised. We must, however remind ourselves of the wilderness they journeyed first. Once the roots of your life have been set into Deep Reservoirs of God's Only Begotten Son no matter what kind of terrain in life you cross the resources you need are embedded in your heart!

From across the story of time Moses speaks to each of us, "Today, look, I am offering you a blessing and a curse: a blessing, if you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God which I enjoin on you today; a curse, if you disobey the commandments of Yahweh your God and leave the way which today I have marked out for you, by following other gods hitherto unknown to you." {Deuteronomy 11:26 - 11:28 NJB}

If you'll keep His commandments God will bless you in way's you've never dreamed possible!
Gary

[Covenanter]

10-14-2003 @ 11:25 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=243612#post243612)
GPiper:

If you'll keep His commandments God will bless you in way's you've never dreamed possible!
Gary
Keeping God's commandments is not possible for man. Jesus came as the surety for the Covenant & kept the Law for his people. He suffered death as the penalty for our breach of covenant, and so redeemed his people with his blood.

The only command we must keep is "repent & turn to God."

[GPiper]

The greatest commandment of all.....But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to put him to the test, one of them put a further question, `Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?" Jesus said to him, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too." (Matthew 22:33 - 40 NJB)


Here's what I found?

[Covenanter]

Gary,

do you find it easier to keep the 10 commandments or the great commandments?

I was a good boy, & went through the commandments ticking them off as "kept".

God slipped the great commandments & being an honest boy, I realised that I failed to keep them. I saw my need of salvation through Christ, and so repented & trusted him.

[GPiper]

I don't know if my knees are sore from tripping over the greatest commandments or if they're sore from praying for help in keeping them! It's probably both!

I'd like to share this prayer......

Lord Jesus,

As we try to keep the commandments given us we find ourselves unable to so yet echoing in the background are the Apostle Paul’s words, “We can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens us.” Speaking only for myself words cannot express how I feel knowing that it you who providing me the resources I need to keep your own commandments. My greatest fear is I will dishonor the sacrifice you’ve given on my behalf but even in that I know your compassion and love will lift me up.

I pray for those who think they can fulfill the commandments without you may the revelation of the consequences of their choice reach them before the reality does.

May each of realize keeping the commandments is on going not a one-time act. May each of us lift the other up in prayer because we need not only you but each other as well.

Amen!

[Covenanter]

Amen !