Covenant Relationships

But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

 

Genesis 6:18

The Bible is filled with covenants made between God and people. Six of those covenants were made with Old Testament figures:

 

• Noah
• Abraham
• Isaac
• Jacob
• Moses
• David

 

There was a seventh and that was made with His own Son, Jesus Christ.

God made a covenant with Noah in order to preserve the human race. This covenant involved Noah's participation by building an ark. He'd never built an ark before nor did he even know what a boat was. It was a totally new concept to Noah and the rest of the world.

 

Why would he need a boat in a dry land?

Noah did not have to invent the ark because God gave him the plans—in specific dimensional detail. He did not have to gather the animals—God led them into the ark. God even closed the door when they all came on board and made it rain to prove why the ark was needed.

The covenant provided all Noah needed to complete his mission which God had called him to. When God spoke to Noah to do this thing, he needed only to respond to God's call to do it. Noah could rest in knowing the covenant made with God was going to be fulfilled as he fulfilled his part.

 

God is always the strongest partner in a covenant relationship.

If you have entered into a covenant relationship with God, you too can be assured that God will uphold His part of the covenant relationship. He is committed to fulfilling His covenant with you and to fulfill that which He has called you to. It only requires one thing on your part—obedience.

 

He will even provide grace and faith to you to help you fulfill your part of the covenant.

Each of us has a covenant with God, but we also enter covenants with others in our personal and everyday lives. How are you doing in fulfilling covenants to others? God has given us the example to follow and He has called you and me to be covenant keepers.