"He remembers His covenant forever"
Psalm 105:8
Oh my Lord, bless You for "remembering Your covenant forever."
Bless You for Your promise to me in the first place! In my heart, I feel like, why would You enter into a covenant with me? I have no claims on You. I can make no demands for You to promise me anything.
I committed treason against You. I hated You. I made other gods and defiled myself in worship of their false images. I clung to them and gave them my desperate devotion--but they despised me, cast me off into filth.
But You! You found me there in the mire and saved me out of my spiritual adultery. You took me in and washed me. You covered me, broken and vulnerable, with Your righteousness and put Your love upon me. You waited in patience and pity while I, delirious, stumbled about in anguishing withdrawals from sin, craving it madly, blind to its destruction. In compassion You heal my sin-inflicted wounds.
I am weak and undeserving of even this mercy but You made a covenant with me. In Your extravagant grace You gave me gifts over and infinitely above what I deserve.
It's hard to believe that You will remember Your covenant to me, because I know I don't deserve it. The knowledge brings me in weakness to my knees and I crumble in self-abandonment. I cannot rely upon myself even to have faith. I cast myself upon Your strength, hoping--if not quite believing--that You are true to Your word. Help me believe, Lord.
Approach, my soul, the mercy seat
Where Holy One and helpless meet.
There fall before my Judge's feet.
Thy promise is my only plea, O God.
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