Grasping the concept of Covenant

If I fully understood covenant relationships early on, I would

 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...