It is the W il of G od that human beings should get into moral rel ationship with Him , and His covenants are for this purpose.

Why does not God save me? He has saved me , but I have not entered into relationship with H im.

Why does not God do this and that? He has done it, the point is - W il I step into cov enant relationship?

Al the great blessings of God are finished and com plete, b ut they are not mine until I enter into relationship with Him on the basis of His covenant.

W aiting for God is incarnate u nbelief, it means that I have no faith in H im; I wait for Him to do something in me that I may trust in that.

God wil not do it, because that is not the basis of the God-and-man relationship.

Ma n has to go out of himself in his covenant wit h God as God goe s out of Himself in Hi s covenant with man.

It is a qu estion of faith in God - the rarest thing; we have faith only in our feelings.

I do not believe God unless He wil give me something in my hand w hereby I may know I have it, then I say - "Now I believe." There is no faith there.

"Look unto Me, and be ye saved."

When I have real y transacted business with God on His covenant and have let go entirely , there is no sense of merit, no human ingred ient in it at al , but a complete overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God, and the whole thing is transfigured with peace and joy .

Much of the world’s beauty is due to clouds. The unchanging blue of a beautiful, sunlit sky still does not compare to the glory of changing clouds. And earth would become a wilderness if not for their ministry to us.

Human life has its clouds as well. They provide us with shade, refresh us, yet sometimes cover us with the darkness of night. But there is never a cloud without its “bright light.” God has told us, “I have set my rainbow in the clouds” (Genesis 9:13). If only we could see clouds from above—in all their billowing glory, bathed in reflective light, and as majestic as the Alps—we would be amazed at their shining magnificence.

We see them only from below, so who will describe for us the “bright light” that bathes their summits, searches their valleys, and reflects from every peak of their expanse? Doesn’t every drop of rain in them soak up health-giving qualities, which will later fall to earth?

O dear child of God! If only you could see your sorrows and troubles from above instead of seeing them from earth. If you would look down on them from where you are seated “with Christ . . . in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 2:6), you would know the beauty of the rainbow of colors they reflect to the hosts of heaven. You would also see the “bright light” of Christ’s face and would finally be content to see those clouds cast their deep shadows over the mountain slopes of your life.

Remember, clouds are always moving ahead of God’s cleansing wind.

Should rage so fiercely round me in its wrath; But this I know—God watches all my path, And I can trust.

I cannot know why suddenly the storm I may not draw aside the unseen veil I have no power to look across the tide, That hides the unknown future from my sight, Nor know if for me waits the dark or light; But I can trust.

To see while here the land beyond the river; But this I know—I will be God’s forever; So I can trust.

This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud,. . . and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

An everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

We declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.