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. Th