The Covenant Life

My Life's Recurrent Theme
Pastor Aimee Reid-Sych

There is a calling within each one of us that beckons to us, “Come! It’s time to soar!  It’s time to be free! It’s time to truly live!”  It is a voice that draws us arising from within a heart that contains the Kingdom of God!  It is a heartbeat that produces … The Covenant Life!

Many times our lives are spent chasing the tail wind of a God that we perceive is “so far out there” that we’ll never catch Him.  We resort to prayer times that are spent “begging God” to meet our need, or to move on our behalf.  We strive to please a God that we think holds an account of our every wrong doing … that will not bless us unless we dot every “i” and cross every “t” in our own attempts at righteous behavior.  Our faith-walk may never exceed a list of positive confessions or Scripture quotes, and we wonder why our circumstances don’t change.  Is this all there is?  Is God so far away that we feel like we’re always reaching, never apprehending; always trying to please, yet continually falling; always trying to indoctrinate our faith, and never seeing Him move?

Please allow me to set your heart at ease!  He longs to live through you a life of Covenant fulfillment, a supernatural existence that I call, “The Covenant Life!” Finding this Covenant Life is not an external journey, to somewhere outside ourselves … but an inward journey, to the depths of who we truly are!  What we find at the core of that journey, is COVENANT!  And what we live from that point on is THE COVENANT LIFE!

There have been so many times that I have cried out as the Psalmist cried out, "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?  My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" (Psalm 42:1-3)  We wonder, “Is there a cure for the drain of life, the worlds that we have created?  Is there a place where: Devastation becomes Peace, Fear becomes Security, Hurt becomes Healing, Disappointment becomes Trust, Doubt becomes Faith, Anger becomes Contentment, Failure becomes Hope, Lies become Truth, and Insignificance becomes Agape Love???

THERE IS! It is a place where we discover a full understanding of Covenant!  It is found in the depths!  The Psalmist continues, “Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and   my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.  Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.  By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life…” (Psalm 42:5-8)  The depths of who God truly is, is calling to the depths of who you truly are, a place where the Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:20-21)!

You may be thinking to yourself, “My life is so far away from the appearance of the Kingdom of God that you say is within me!”  And maybe it seems as if the Kingdom is perhaps unrecognizable in your current condition!   I would like to suggest to you today that the purposes and intents of your truest heart ARE after God, for He is within you!  That “will” that you feel tugging against you right now that takes you away from Christ is NOT the truest YOU … for the TRUEST YOU contains the purposes of the Kingdom of God within you! Those purposes are built on Covenant, upon a Covenant God!

The Message Bible in Proverbs 20:5 says, “The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.”  Let’s grab hold of some understanding today.  There is Covenant in your heart, and where there is Covenant, there is Covenant purpose, and where there is Covenant purpose, there is born, The Covenant Life! Take time right now to dig in to 1 Corinthians 2:9-13 to find that within your spirit man is the Spirit of God who longs to reveal through you this life that God has in store …

There is a journey we are called to take, right now before we spiral any further away from God’s design for our lives.  This journey is an inward journey, A journey of digging … to the depths within!   We dig past the ulterior motives, the external vices, the devastation, the fear, the hurts, the disappointments, the doubt, the anger, the failures, the lies and the feelings of insignificance …. We dig so deep that we finally find the core of who we really are.  

Again I’d like to quote The Message Bible, “If your first concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you'll find both yourself and me.” (Matt.10:39)  When we find the core of who we really are, we find CHRIST, the COVENANT!

Isaiah 42:6-9 proclaims, “I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles, To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house… Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them."  Do you see here that CHRIST IS THE COVENANT!  When we allow ourselves to journey inward, this is WHO we find, we find Jesus, the Covenant, and the source of the Covenant Life! 

Ladies, we have spiraled so far away from the purity of what “Christ in you, the hope of Glory” really means (Colossians 1:27).  He is within us, the magnificence of His Kingdom is within us!  He has a covenant with His children, and it is new, a holy promise, a gift written on our hearts!  It is not based on our own righteousness or congruence with the law, it is based on His grace! The journey inward begins with, seeking “first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33 NKJV)  

Dig past the layers, the walls your life has generated.  Let time in the beauty of His presence heal your hurts, renew your thought processes, subject your will and surround you with His life.  It is at that point of abandonment to His glory that we find The Covenant, and the source of this Covenant Life He longs to live through us.  It is here that we find the place where: Devastation becomes Peace, Fear becomes Security, Hurt becomes Healing, Disappointment becomes Trust, Doubt becomes Faith, Anger becomes Contentment, Failure becomes Hope, Lies become Truth, and Insignificance becomes Agape Love … truly the evidence of The Covenant Life!