Daily Meditation: God's faithfulness and ours

God's faithfulness and ours When God makes a covenant with us, God says:  "I will love you with an everlasting love.  I will be faithful to you, even when you run away from me, reject me, or betray me."  In our society we don't speak much about covenants;  we speak about contracts.  When we make a contract with a person, we say:  "I will fulfill my part as long as you fulfill yours.  When you don't live up to your promises, I no longer have to live up to mine."  Contracts are often broken because the partners are unwilling or unable to be faithful to their terms. But God didn't make a contract with us; God made a covenant with us, and God wants our relationships with one another to reflect that covenant.  That's why  marriage, friendship, life in community are all ways to give visibility to God's faithfulness in our lives together.   For further reflection ... "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.  I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.  I will be their God and they will be my people." - Hebrews 8: 10-11 (NIV) Comment on this Daily Meditation. Join us this Lent as we reflect on Nouwen's "The Return of the Prodigal Son". Click here for more information.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community.     Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.

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