Ezekiel 18-20: Not a Covenant Breaking God

There you will remember your conduct and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil you have done. You will know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name’s sake and not according to your evil ways and your corrupt practices, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”  - Ezek. 20: 43-44 NIV

Poor Israel.  They were hampered by an everlasting covenant that had been struck between God and their forefathers.  God was never going to forget them and he was never going to let them forget him.  They were and still are his.  No matter their conduct, no matter how far they strayed, they were still his.  All their sins, and they were many and grievous, all their sins would do was make life miserable for them.  Their sins could not break the covenant.  Their sins would take them away from their promised land into captivity, but they would not cause God to let go of them completely.  What God promised was set in stone.  He would not break his side of the covenant.

The same is true today for those of us who have entered into covenant through the blood of God's son.  That covenant cannot be broken either.  All our sins will do is lead us into captivity and away from the promise.  If we try to ignore what we have committed to, we will suffer the consequences.  Our life will become miserable, but we will not be abandoned or forgotten.  In fact, it would be better if we had been forgotten.  God will chase us down, the good Shepherd going after the lost sheep.  God will deal with us and our sins, but he will not forget his people, those he has chosen and those that have chosen him.  He is not a covenant breaking God.

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