ADVENT DEVOTIONAL | Day 3 | An Everlasting Covenant

READ
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. - Gen. 17:7

REFLECT
Yesterday we reflected on God’s promise to bless every family through Abraham. Today we look at another promise God made—one just as astonishing and just as essential for Advent hope. In today’s verse, God promises to establish an everlasting covenant.

In this covenant, God was binding Himself to His people with unwavering commitment. This commitment was seen on display in Genesis 15 as God’s presence passed through the sacrificed animals. And at the heart of this commitment is an amazing promise: I will be your God. God promised to be the God of Abraham and his offspring not for a moment, not for a season, but forever. God promised Abraham—and all who belong to him by faith—a relationship marked by permanence, protection, and presence.

When Jesus came to earth, He came to be Immanuel, God with us (Matt. 1:23). He came as the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promise to be the God of His people. And He came to fulfill every requirement of the covenant on our behalf. Through His life, death, and resurrection, He secured a bond with God that cannot be broken. Because of Jesus, God’s “everlasting covenant” extends to us today—an unshakable promise that He will be our God and that we will be His people forever.

RESPOND

• When do you feel most distant from God? How can remembering that God has come near to us in Jesus comfort you in those moments?
• Our hope is not in our ability to hold onto God, but His commitment to hold onto us. Consider this great reality as you listen to this song.