When God remembers His covenant..

We all know our God is a faithful God. We know He will fulfill all His promises and covenants.  But the thing we don’t know and the thing we all want to know is His time in which He will do His things. And the beauty of that time is He will do the things swiftly.

God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. Exodus 2:24

There’s a time when God remembers His covenant. Moreover, the groaning of His people forced Him to remember the covenant made to Father Abraham. When God considers His covenant, people forget to keep their side of that covenant. When Moses was called to rescue the people of Israel. God showed Him some of the great miracles. He instructed him how to speak to the Pharaoh, how to convince and show the great signs to the people of Israel. But when Moses gets ready to go to Egypt, God decides to kill him.

At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’s feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. Exodus 4:24,25

When God explained all things to Moses then why did He not tell him to circumcise His Son. Because the circumcision was a sign to the covenant between the descendants of Abraham and God. The problem is when God remembers His covenant, He expects us to remember the covenant as well. He will not remind us of the covenant every time. We want God to keep his covenants, but we fail to remember our side of the covenant. We want to know His time but when that time comes, we fail to hold that covenant. There are many people who want to discern the time of God but there are only few who gets ready for the time.

In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. So I turned to the Lord, God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. Daniel 9:2,3

When Daniel read and understood the scriptures of Jeremiah, He came to know that God’s time is near. He understood the covenant God had with Israel. God had revealed His times and plans to Jeremiah. But when Daniel’s generation understood the promise, their first reaction was to return to God. Ezra and Nehemiah made new covenant to God. They mourned before Him and asked for His forgiveness.

While I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. Daniel 9:21

The truth is when God’s time is near, He seeks those people who have kept the covenant. That is why as soon as Daniel started praying answer was given to him. Moreover, the swiftness of Gabriel is specified to show how quick God wants to bring his people back, but the problem is the people need to keep their side of the covenant.

There were many people to recognize and discern the coming of Messiah, but when He came, they failed to recognize Him. And the Messiah pointed out to them how far away they were from God. He proved that the people “though seeing, don’t see; though hearing, do not hear or understand.”

There may be many people to show us how close the second coming of God is but only few are there with their lamps burning. At God’s time, He will do His things swiftly but are we ready to move in His swiftness, or will we run to find oil to keep our lamps burning. Blessed are those arrows that are ready for their Master in the QUIVER OF GOD.