¿Can you agree with Dios?

By:

RVC Shepherd

BLESSINGS BROTHERS.

You may have heard it said by someone or some or many , the possibility that we ourselves ll eguemos to a covenant with God; and although we believe that we must submit to the will of God , it could be that we continue to think of the two possibilities united; that is, a pact with God about something that interests me personally as long as his will is done.

Let's think about a possibility or an example that we usually use: -I will make an agreement with God to open a restaurant and that it is God who decides, where I open it, the color of the tables, the menu, the opening date, etc. , etc.

We are going to review the word of God in order to be able to discern if it is possible for us to make a covenant or a contract with God, with the understanding that if we speak of a covenant between us and God understands that it is , between two parties ,   and in the case of God then obviously it would be a covenant or contract , where both ,   we look for the same purpose, ie , a contract where we walk together looking for the goal, as a kind of society.

The text that we will use, without a doubt, is Genesis the whole chapter 15. In such a chapter God promises Abraham that Canaan will inherit the land that flows milk and honey, and before this in Genesis 15: 8 Abraham asks for a sign.

God immediately uses a tradition of the peoples of that time when two people were going to establish a covenant or contract between them. God asks Abraham to look for a calf, a goat and a ram , all three years old and other small animals, specifically a turtledove and a dove, the latter suitable for atonement and burnt offerings in the case of low-income people.

Those three large animals would split in half and one side would be placed in front of the other leaving a space in between. The people who would agree would pass between the pieces of animals and thus the agreement would be totally broken.

The meaning had to do with the fact that if any of the covenants violated the covenant, they would suffer the same fate as those broken animals (Jeremiah 34:18:20).

Paraphrasing we imagine Abraham saying: - wow... I am going to pass with God through these animals. I've done this ritual with many human but now with God in person ... .¡ go, that honor hire from you to you with God, the Creator of the entire Universe!

But ... let's see what really happened: time passes and passes and God does not come to pass along with Abraham ... time continues to pass to the point that birds of prey are already stalking and God does not arrive ...

It begins to get dark and God does not come…. It is totally dark and Abraham begins to feel sleepy ... and already at night, being totally dark (Genesis 15:17), you see a smoking oven and a torch of fire that passed between the divided animals.

Wow ... what happened? We know that God the Father cannot be seen because the person would die. Moses manages to see only the back once (Genesis 32:30) and John 1:18 confirms that "no one has ever seen God " in a clear allusion that whoever has shown himself has always been Jesus Christ and not Heavenly Father .

Let's go back to the event. It is totally night. Abraham must realize that God passed through the animals and therefore , he passes with a torch in his hand (God does not need such a torch but Abraham does need God to use it. ( Fire is a symbol of God ), but Abraham can not see God. How God does this? If in doubt, with a Theophany. Since c on smoky eye sees diffusely, and to this steamy oven.

Abraham does not have the slightest doubt that God passed ... but he did not pass with God ... God passed totally alone and that day (Genesis 15:18) God made a covenant with Abraham. It is a pact in which the human being does not participate as a partner , so it can never be a fragile pact but totally solid and inviolable because it has the rubric of the Almighty.

Notice the difference: the covenant is not of Abraham with God but of God with Abraham. The plan is drawn up by God, never by Abraham or by us; and also the Covenant with God is a unilateral Covenant , that is, who plans it, who generates it and who signs it is only God.

If you want to open a restaurant and see the possibilities in it, then open it and bend your knee before God to protect you from all kinds of evil and temptations in that job, but never seek to walk with Him in the midst of broken animals , because the spiritual plans that God has for you are from God's own manufacture and not from us.

The small animals, the palomino and the turtledove, in addition to the large ones, make up all the licit animals to be sacrifiable as peace offerings and for forgiveness of sins according to Leviticus chapter 3 onwards.

Large animals are sacrificed by those with economic possibilities and small ones by the poor, in a clear allusion that God will make the covenant with the person whom He decides, rich or poor. God doesn't care if you have a restaurant chain or if you sell empanadas from house to house.

There is a phrase that is not written in the Bible, yet it follows Biblical principles. This phrase is: "not a leaf falls from a tree without God allowing it." This phrase is said by Don Quixote, Cervantes wrote it in the book "Don Quixote de la Mancha".

Let us analyze such a phrase: a leaf falls from the tree not because God is engaged in it, but because He allows it. That is, in other words, there are many events that happen because God allows them, that is, because God simply does not prevent them from happening.

Can we then believe that God activates his power for us to open a restaurant and do well with Him because ¿"we made a covenant with the Creator"?

Of course not. When a footballer prays to God before a football game starts, he can never pretend that God makes his team win. You can only pray for God to protect you in times of possible danger and to use the right words with the referee, your teammates, your rivals and the public.

We are not partners of God therefore in any covenant and therefore , in every Covenant that God makes with us we must truly humble ourselves and say: "Thy will be done."

Amen!