A covenant with God

To many, the foolishness of God is evident in every biblical story of failed covenants between God and humans. God made humans as a reflection of himself, yet we are made from dust. We are deceptive and disobedient creatures with no moral backbone and a flawed sense of reality. By creating a covenant with a human, whomever that may be, God enters into a partnership that will inevitably be broken. Many may justify this by saying that He was just giving humans a chance to fulfill this covenant, but God knows that, as humans, we have no chance. In the stories of the bible it is God that gives himself the chance to belong in a covenant with his creation. He wants that bond with every fiber of his being, even when we fail. It is then that He has his chance to pick us up and dust us off. We need to realize that these stories of failed covenants are not about the foolishness of God, but of humans. They should be humbling and reveal to us how dependent we are. We become so self-absorbed and worldly that we shove God out of our covenant in our own attempt to make it stronger. We have to stop trying to pick ourselves up when we fall and let God help us. Christ was the only one that fulfilled the covenant because he was fully saturated in God. He did not just imitate God, but was God. Christ was willing, obedient and completely surrendered to Him and so became just as much a part of the Covenant as God was. “God breathes into humans the breath of life;” all we have to do is take it in.