“Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant” (2 Samuel 23:5)

When David was on his deathbed, God revealed to him how his life fit into the everlasting covenant made between the Father and the Son before the foundation of the world. Here’s how David described it: “The Spirit of the LORD spoke … He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire” (2 Samuel 23:2-5).

After a life of serving God, and yes, sinning and repenting countless times, David says, the everlasting covenant is all his salvation and desire. The apostle Paul gives us more information about this everlasting covenant: “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love … In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will” (Ephesians 1:4-11).

If you know Christ as your Lord and Savior, “Blessed are you, (fill in your name), for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but the Father who is in Heaven” (Matthew 16:17). Christ said, “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me … No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:37-44 ). Rejoice in the everlasting covenant…this salvation should be all you desire.  

God made you a new creature to serve Him while you wait for “an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:4).

Soon, you’ll be able to say with Paul, “The time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day” (2 Timothy 4:6-8).