Lent Day 29 – Lenten Devotion – Monday, April 7, 2025
“Driven Hearts!”
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Scriven, Converse
What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear
What a privilege to carry
Ev'rything to God in prayer
Oh what peace we often forfeit
Oh what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry
Ev'rything to God in prayer
“The days are surely coming, says The Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt – a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says The Lord.”
A promise is a promise. How long can you keep a promise? We each try desperately to keep our promises, but they often get broken. Good friendships are built on trust. Can we trust others? Can others trust us? Can we even trust ourselves to keep our own word?
To review: A covenant is a special kind of promise, with each party making a promise to the other party. Covenants are designed in such a way, that if one party cannot, or does not, keep their promise, the other party is under no obligation to keep their promise or to uphold their part of the relationship.
As much as we try, as much as we want to try, God knows we will break our promises, our part of the covenant, to love the Lord our God with all our heart and our neighbors as ourselves. The love of God in our friend Jesus is so great, that even when we break our part of the promise, God keeps his promises, his covenant, and God keeps his heart on us in Christ alone!
How long can you keep a promise? Maybe not for very long. Trust God in our friend Jesus Christ keeps his covenant with us forever!
Let us pray: Jesus, I thank you for your friendship, for your loyalty, for keeping your promises, for being able to trust you. Thank you for being driven in grace, in Jesus, to establish a new covenant that you will never break. Keep your heart on me, bless me with your faithful friendship, restore me with a new spirit to keep my promise of making you and my neighbors first. In your name alone, I take everything to you, my friend, in prayer. Amen.
