not have struggled so long with resting in Jesus.
If our child continued to throw something on the floor, says
"Jefferson Bethke", we would
never explode and scream: "forget it~!~I am out of here.
we understand we are in covenant
relationship with that child and would never, for whatever
reason, ever consider leaving them.
That is how God feels about me. He realizes that he is in
covenant
relationship with me...and there is
nothing I can do to cause him to leave me.
The prodigal son had a covenant relaionship with his father,
but
like me, he doubted his father's
love. Yet when he arose and returned to his father, he came
straight from the pigs and smelled like
pigs. That filth did not stop the Father from embracing
him...getting some of that filth on the
Father.
I am so happy now that I understand covenant relationship
fully. Most of all I am overwhelmed by
his boundless love...
