Am I Really Desired By God?Sample

A grant covenant is when a greater person and a lesser person enter into an agreement, with the greater one taking on all the obligations. The lesser one only needs to receive the covenant.

Grant covenants are also referred to as covenants of promise, or unconditional covenants. God made grant covenants with Noah, Abraham, and David because He loved them and their families so much that He wanted a formal agreement to seal and signify their bond. In the biblical cycles of God’s love given, rejected, and accepted, the grant covenants were God giving His love to His people and formalizing it with a binding agreement. God was doing all the work, and all the people had to do was accept the agreement and pledge themselves in a solemn bond to their Creator.

If you’re a parent, you’re familiar with this kind of relationship because you are in a grant-covenant relationship with each child. A newborn baby needs love, care, and attention to his or her needs twenty-four hours a day. As the parent, you plan and prepare for that baby, and when you finally bring that little one home, you spend most of your twenty-four hours a day thinking about what that baby needs, and providing for those needs. For several years, the work and the effort flows one direction. All the baby has to do is eat, sleep, grow, and develop. If everything goes the way it’s supposed to, soon your little one is smiling and cooing at you as he or she learns how to return your love. . . .

If you’ve not yet been a parent or a caregiver, maybe you’ve been the proud owner of a pet. . . . As a pet owner, you’re responsible for all your pet’s needs. While it’s fun to have a new pet in the house, it’s also a tremendous amount of work—especially when it unintentionally destroys something or has an accident on the rug. Your puppy or kitten receives all your love and your care without even realizing the cost because you’ve taken on all the obligations.

In the grant-covenant relationship, God is the greater party and takes on all the responsibility. And here’s the key—He doesn’t mind, because He loves His people. From the beginning, He took the role of father and treated us as His children, making a grant covenant the best type of covenant. God wants to give His children everything He has.