Covenant Relationship

I wanted to share with you something a little bit personal, but I feel that it is important that I do because there maybe others going through the same thing that I had faced until yesterday. It all started while I was reading and spending time with God in my devotion. In this devotion was God's word reminding me of the covenant relationship I have with him through his son's blood and how that blood has made me righteous in Christ. 

While I was reading this, there were these thoughts telling me that, "it may be for others, but not for you. You do not have this relationship with God." At the end of my devotion it has a prayer and then it asked, "What is God saying to you?" I sat there for a moment and then I felt God begin to speak to me concerning these thoughts that I had during my meditation time with him. He said to me, "Those thoughts you are thinking are not my thoughts, nor have I given them to you. Know this; You are my son and I love you so very much. I will swoop down out of heaven and protect you. Lean not on your own understanding, but in all of your ways acknowledge me. I love you son."

At that moment it clicked. Like a light switch. God loves me like his own son because he adopted me through the sacrifice of his son. He has made a covenant with me to be not only God to me, but Father. Jesus told Mary after he had risen from the grave in John 20:17 that he was going to his father and her father, and to his God and her God.

You may be struggling with the same thing. Having the same thoughts that says that you are not in covenant with God or that God does not forgive you or love you. I am telling you, those thoughts are not God's thoughts and neither did he give them to you. It is Christ Jesus and his sacrifice that you are in a father-son covenant with the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus our beloved savior.