The Covenant Faithfulness of our LORD God

"For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that He hateth putting away." -Malachi 2:16 [KJV]

And well is it for thee, my soul, that He doth: for if the Lord God of Israel had dealt by thee once, as thou hast been dealing with Him always, thou wouldest have been ruined for ever. But what is the cause of thy mercies? Is it not the covenant faithfulness of God thy Father, founded in His own everlasting love, engaged in His promise and His oath, to Jesus, and secured in His blood and righteousness? And is this the cause why the Lord God of Israel hateth putting away? Is this the cause why God resteth in His love? Oh for grace to see the cause, to adore the mercy; and where the Lord God of Israel rests, there, my soul, do thou rest also.  

See to it, my soul, that thy life of faith, and thy life of hope, are both founded in Jesus, and not in the sense thou hast of these precious things. The things are the same, how different soever, at different times, thy view of them may be. The everlasting worth, the everlasting efficacy, of Jesus's blood and righteousness, is always the same; and His people's interest in it the same, although, from the different view we have of it, at different times, it seems as if sometimes it were lost, and our own state was worse and worse.  

My soul, upon such occasions call to mind this sweet scripture: "The LORD God of Israel saith that He hateth putting away." Observe, the Lord not only doth hate putting away, but He saith it, that His people may know it, and properly esteem His unchanging love. Oh to cry out under the assurance of this precious truth, and to feel the blessedness of what the Lord said by His servant the prophet: "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty: He will save: He will rejoice over thee with joy, He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing" (Zephaniah 3:17). 

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

September 7th, THE POOR MAN'S MORNING PORTION 


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