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Brian Niece on Covenant: A Promise to Serve
This past Sunday, we at Grace Community experienced a Wesley Covenant Service. It’s something that will become part of our annual communal practice for Baptism of our Lord Sunday.As I wrote out my individual covenant with God (as we each were invited to do in response to Holy Communion) the words of the song that played haunted me:
Eat this bread, filled with life
Hunger no more
Drink this cup of living water
Never thirst again.
I am the bread, I am the wine
Children taste and see
Here is all of me.
God has consistently, faithfully offered all of God’s self to me. I know that our spiritual ancestors were unable to be faithful to covenant … and so am I. What could I possibly covenant to God in response to God giving all to me?Though it was more wordy than this, I basically told God “I am yours, every part of me.”Now, I know I will break covenant and seek restoration. That is the way of humanity. But I know that God longs to enable me to keep this promise.It’s a promise to serve. To serve my only Master however he chooses. To serve when I don’t feel like it. To serve when I’m unpopular. To serve though everyone desert me. To serve in the face of conflict. To serve in the throes of doubt. To serve … and to serve … and to serve.This promise is a covenant that depends entirely on God. And I trust him.
SO TELL ME SOMETHING:
What are you covenanting these days?
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