God's perpetual covenant of peace...

          Imagine God has made a perpetual covenant of peace with you. " 'For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed,' says the Lord, who has mercy on you." (Isaiah 54:10)
          This is a promise from God. "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved" (John 3:17). So Jesus did not come to condemn you but to save you. That's pretty powerful. We live in a day when sin is all around us, even sometimes consuming us. It's oppressive and feels like there's no way out, no hope. But Jesus came to offer us hope. Think about it: there's nothing you can do to cause God to hate you. Jesus came with a mission, even a mandate to save you, to give you a chance, NOT to judge, condemn and destroy you.
          It seems like God is determined to establish His covenant of peace with you. He doesn't want to destroy you or harm you, even though that's what you deserve. His Word says that the wages of sin is death - that's what you deserve - but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ  our Lord (Romans 6:23). Imagine, God wants to give you a gift when you deserve death. That's pretty contradictory but God isn't moved by your sin, He is moved by His love for you. He wants to be at peace with you. He says: "Come and let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18). That sounds like He wants to sit down with you and work things out. It's like a relationship and in fact it is just that - a relationship. He desires relationship with you, He desires to be at peace with you NOT war. He desires for you to get along with Him. His whole aim is reconciliation, bringing you back to Himself. He is actually making the first step towards peace. He is actually humbling Himself and extending peace to you first even though you have done nothing to deserve it.
          Yet, He calls it "a covenant of peace." He is not just desiring to be at peace with you, He wants to establish a covenant of peace with you. And He is a covenant-keeping God so you can rest assured that He will NEVER break His promise, He will ALWAYS keep His end of the bargain even when you don't. That's pretty big coming from a big God. But God just sometimes does things BIG!!!