How can I KNOW??

I needed to listen to week 4 a couple times for it to really soak in. I’m thankful for all of your posts that helped me to better comprehend the sermon!

The blood covenant isn't something I've spent much time thinking about or even understanding really. Something that helped me put a tangible picture to this promise is the comparison between God’s covenant with Abraham and the blood relationship between siblings. I share more genes with my brother than I do with anybody else, ever. Our blood is bound by our family connection and that is physically impossible to change. God binds himself to Abraham and his descendants (US!) through common, human blood. Nothing can change that! The blood that seals the covenant of grace IS the ultimate assurance.

Abraham asks how can I know for sure?? This is totally me. I would be asking God over and over, but how do I know? How can I be certain?! I’m so glad that God doesn't just turn to Abraham and say “because I said so.” Because he definitely could have! Instead, God is accommodating to the ways that we as humans think and understands the ideas that we can grasp. Like DJ says, what a picture of the love of God!

How can I know? At the end of listening to the sermon for the first time, each time DJ asked “How can I know ______?” I wanted to yell back “I can’t!! I can’t know! I don’t trust enough, I don’t have enough faith to know that you will be there and that you will be faithful in everything!!” But after listening a second time, I am continuing to wrap my mind around the truth of the ultimate assurance. That God really does give us, his covenant partners, ALL that he is, as long as we receive. As long as we say Amen.