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~To Him That is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy...to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.~ Jude 24
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Our Blood Covenant
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's
table; and was lame on both his feet.
(IISamuel 9:13)
Mephibosheth was the crippled grandson of King Saul,the son of Jonathan. He
lived in ignorance and fear of D avid,who held a home and riches in reserve for him.
Mephibosheth lived in a shack in a poor city called Lodibar because he believed the
reports that D avid was secretly seeking his life. H e despised the man who had taken
the kingdom from his family not knowing that D avid had made a blood covenant
with his father,Jonathan.
Everything that had belonged to his father now rightfully belonged to him through the blood covenant.
One day David had a desire to bless someone from the household of Jonathan.
When he learned that Jonathan had a son,David sent messengers to Lodibar to bring
Mephibosheth to the throne room in Jerusalem. W hen he was brought before David, he fell on his face. I'm sure that Mephibosheth was in fear for his life as he fell before David. But instead of death,he was given land,riches and a home in the palace of the king!
It had been his all along!
As David reached down to lift Mephibosheth from the ground, the scar on David's hand from the covenant made between he and Jonathan was probably visible.
Mephibosheth had been a small child when Jonathan was killed,but he could probably remember seeing a scar similar to David's on his father's hand.
Only as he arose from the ground did Mephibosheth realize that he was being blessed because of a covenant that was established before his birth.
We too,have a covenant that was established before we were born. Our covenant was established between God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is a covenant that cannot be broken. Why should we continue to live below our covenant
rights? Why should we accept a poverty mentality and fear? We have a right to come into the throne room of God in faith believing for the privileges of the blood covenant.
The scars on Jesus' hands guarantee our blessings.
You may feel that you do not deserve God's blessings because you are prone to sin. You may feel unworthy because you still struggle with the nature of the flesh.
Mephibosheth had every reason to feel the same way about God's blessings in his life.
In the same way that Mephibosheths' crippled feet came over from his old life into his new life, the nature of the flesh enters with us into our new life.
When Mephibosheth was invited to dine at the king's table his feet could not be seen by
David,David's children or Mephibosheth himself.
The good news is that as long as we
remain in fellowship with the Lord Jesus,our crippled feet are unseen by us, those
around us or even by the Master of the house!
Bob Yandian
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Strive to enter in at the strait gate:for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ( Luke 13:24 )
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