Jeremiah 33:20,21
"Thus saith the LORD; If ye 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; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers."

It is important to realize that God said this during a time that the king of Judah (who was a son of David) was a wicked man. God was in the process of pronouncing judgment on him and his family. As a matter of fact God’s prophet Jeremiah was in the kings prison for giving him God’s warning. This is important to realize because many people seem to think that God will keep his promises to you as long as you live right, but as soon as you backslide, they seem to think that he disowns you, and his promises are null and void.

The reality is that, thank goodness, as I mentioned yesterday, our ways are not God’s way. That’s the way we a people are many times, but when God makes a promise you can count on it. There is nothing you can do to keep him from keeping his promise. As it says in this passage, to paraphrase, if you can keep the day and night from coming, then you can stop him from keeping his promise. Personally I’m glad to say that none of us are able to change the reality that day goes into night and then night into day. It is just a reality of life. Something that we would consider a natural law. So is the fact that God cannot lie, and will always keep his promise.

So I know that this passage is talking about the covenant God made with David. What covenant has he made with us?

Hebrews 9:15
"And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance."

So the covenant God has made with us involves an eternal inheritance. Namely going to heaven, where we will live with him for all eternity. God himself died on the cross for our sins to provide a way of escape from hell. He now offers eternal life as a free gift. “But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our LORD” It is free. All you have to do is accept it.

It’s almost like contractual law here in America. Where there is an offer and an acceptation, it constitutes a contract. Jesus has paid the price. He offers eternal life. Until you accept his offer though there is no contract, no covenant. Once you have, though, it is as binding as the certainty that day and night will continue to roll into one another.

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