Stop, my soul

Yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.
2 Samuel 23:5

"This covenant is divine in its origin. 

Stop, my soul. 

God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that God who spake the world into existence by a word; He, stooping from his majesty, takes hold of thy hand and makes a covenant with thee.

 

“HE hath made with me a covenant.” 

But notice, it is particular in its application. 

Here lies the sweetness of it to each believer. 

It is nought for me that He made peace for the world; 

I want to know whether He made peace for me!

This covenant is everlasting in its duration. 

An everlasting covenant means a covenant which had no beginning, and which shall never, never end. 

Like dying David, I will sing of this, even though my house be not so with God as my heart desireth." 

Charles Spurgeon