This covenant comes from God himself. "He has made with me an everlasting covenant." Oh, that word HE! Stop right there, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has actually made a covenant with you. Yes, that God. The one who spoke the universe into existence with a word. He stoops down from his majesty, takes hold of your hand, and makes a covenant with you.

Can you grasp it? The stupendous condescension of it should ravish our hearts forever if we could really understand it. HE has made a covenant with me! Not some earthly king—that would be something. No, the Prince of the kings of the earth, El Shaddai, the Lord All-Sufficient, the Jehovah of ages, the everlasting Elohim—HE has made with me an everlasting covenant.

But notice how personal it gets. "He has made with ME an everlasting covenant." That's where the sweetness lies for every believer. It means nothing to me that he made peace for the world—I want to know whether he made peace for me! It's little that he made a covenant—I want to know whether he made a covenant with me.

Blessed is the assurance that he has made a covenant with me! When God the Holy Spirit gives me this assurance, then his salvation is mine. His heart is mine. He himself is mine—he is my God.

And this covenant is everlasting. An everlasting covenant means one that had no beginning and will never, never end. How sweet it is! In the middle of all life's uncertainties, to know that "the foundation of the Lord stands sure." To have God's own promise: "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips."

Like dying David, I will sing of this covenant. Even when my house is not as I would have it.