When God saves, He provided numerous graces, so that the saved may move towards the life that He designates. When the saved live according to salvation, then God is satisfied (Mt. 25:22-23). This is why salvation is amazing. It is the believers greatest boast. It is a Christian’s strength which only grows stronger over time (2 Pt 1:4). Salvation is God’s wonderful gift.
What is salvation?
The context starts with man. Man is a sinner with no hope and unable to self regenerate. We wrongly think salvation begins with our effort and results in God’s donation. Salvation only belongs to God. We have no part. In addition, we don’t know the specific reason why a certain person is saved. How can we, when we are saved from beginning, when nothing existed but God alone. Yet God in his foreknowledge, decided to save. Our lives were surely head towards destruction before God showed mercy and intervened. What we know is that God is love and instead of pouring out His wrath, God shows mercy (1 Jn 4:8, Jn 3:16, Mi 7:18-19).
God is faithful
If God fails to keep His promises, then our salvation is not possible. On the contrary, God is the most trustworthy and always keeps his promises. Wherever you go, whatever you do, you can trust in God and depend on Him.
`and to remember his holy covenant`
God remembers. In fact, God doesn’t have to remember since He knows everything at all times. He is omniscient. When God remembers, He is emphasizing and adding surety for our sake. Man forgets, but God remembers. He never forgets His promises. From Genesis 3:15, we find God’s promise of Eve’s descendant crushing the serpent and written in Luke, Jesus is the son of Enosh. God even remembers all our sin (Rev 20:12-13). God will undoubtedly remember His holy covenant.
A covenant is the historical method used by God to bring us into a relationship with Him. God entered into a covenant with Abraham. This covenant in the Old Testament parallels the new covenant in Jesus in the New Testament. The promise to Abraham was many descendants dwelling in the land and being protected. Abraham wants to know for sure God will do what He says. (Gen 15:8). God then commands Abraham to divide various animals and lay them opposite each other. God then passes (cuts) through them, establishing His covenant with Abraham. The word covenant means ‘to cut’. We see God’s faithfulness in the establishing of the covenant with Abraham, as He passed through the animals.
Application
Jesus is the guarantee and fulfillment of the new covenant (Heb 7:22, Ac 4:12). Through Jesus, God has made a covenant with those He saved. If you believe in Jesus and trust His faithfulness, then even though your situation gets darker, your hope gets brighter (2 Th 1:5,9-10). We must remember God’s faithfulness through the gospel of Jesus Christ. God’s covenant are not just words, but power to convict and save. Depend on God like a child, simply and fully. He is the same God, same covenant, same faith. God is faithful, must also be faithful to Christ.
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