GOD’S COVENANT WITH A NEW GENERATION
Keywords 29:12
You are standing here in
order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is
making with you this day and sealing with an oath,
1. Covenant based on God’s grace (1-15)
After retelling all
the terms of the covenant made with their parents 40 years prior at Horeb (Mt.
Sinai), Moses reminds this new generation their own experience with God’s grace
as they grew up in the wilderness: God provided their clothing and food and
defeated their enemies. Based on this grace, he calls them now to renew their
covenant. They stand and enter this covenant relationship as his own people, no
longer simply as children of God’s people. God’s promise is based on an
oath—"all nations will be blessed through your offspring” (Ge 22:18)—and
has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ (Gal 3:16).
2. Make sure your
heart does not turn away (16-29)
The covenant gave
them a clear identity as God’s people and instructions on how to be a blessing
in the new land. But they must guard their hearts from idolatry and pride to
keep their covenant in that new land. Although there are things we do not know,
God has revealed all we and our children need in his covenant that we may
follow and be blessed.
Prayer Father, thank you for
making a covenant with me through Jesus. Help me trust in you today.
One Word God’s covenant in every generation
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