Covenant Love

So lately, well since I re-listened to Pastor Asshericks sermon on Christ and his covenant, I have been thinking in the mindset of how the covenant is integrated into Christianity.

And after dwelling on it, and looking at places in scripture where it is prevalent i have came to the conclusion that this subject is pretty awesome.

The covenant, or the bond that binds us and God together is a massive and integral part of God's working in history. It also is a model for marriage and vice versa, biblical marriage shows how God's covenant is with us. All in all it is woven into the fabric of scripture quite thoroughly.

There is a lot to say about this topic but let me just state one of my favorite parts. 

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Before anything but God existed, there was covenant. The relationship or covenant or standard or promises that held God, three in one, together in union was Love. A law of self-sacrifice, a standard of putting others first. 

If we could observe The Holy Spirit, The Father, and The Son existed before anything had yet been created, we could see the the Principles given us in scripture practiced and laid out plainly and purely in the words, and actions of each person of the Godhead. They would give each other the utmost attention and priority, yearn to give to the other instead of receive, and so on. Just let your imagination run and imagine, if possible the purest and most loving display of life. 

And in this union the enjoyed, but Love is a principle of other-centeredness. So what would God naturally want to do? Have more beings to lavish this affection and love on, so God created. 

Not to be loved, but to Love.

And its in this covenantal relationship of Love that God invites us to join in. True Love, with all your heart, cannot be forced, we are simply Loved by God and given the power of free will to choose to love Him in return, which He knows would be the highest of all attainments, that is to emulate the self-sacrificing principles that will ultimately bring true satisfaction. God knows this so He affords each person ample opportunity and strength to perform this Love.

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Ill try to share more later, but this is all I had time to write right now, chew on it for a bit, it tastes pretty awesome.