May 18, 2009
Hello Monday from Kung-Li May 18
Posted on 5:01 PM by Kung-Li Deng
Covenant House:
I read this statement from a book "the supernatural ways of royalty" by Kris Wallotton and Bill Johnson ( I strongly recommend this book):
"Judas wanted intimacy without covenant; that's why he left supper during communion and then betrayed Jesus with a kiss".
This statement hit me: it describes so vividly how our society deals with relationship today:
intimacy without covenant.
This mentality can be easily identified on all fronts of relationships: lovers who want to live together, getting what each wants from the relationship without any commitment. One night stand that breaks covenant but offers instant intimacy anyway. Husband or wife walks out of a marrige simply allowing anything else but death "do" them apart. Church hoppers that want to know "what do I get out of this church" but not thinking how to commit to the vision God gives to the body of Christ.
It reminds me of the movie, Titanic, that we watch Jack willingly to sacrifice his life for Rose in the last scene. We are all drawn to this unforgettable moment: Rose let go off frozen Jack from this floating device that holds Rose only, watching Jack disappearing into the bottom of the sea with hands swirling before his closed eye. It appeals to all of us, young and old, that finally we are witnessing a man willing to die so his lover can live.
But, story does not finish just there.
Rose returned to the same spot 50 years later, dropping the ring into the bottom of the sea. Why did she do that? I wonder.
He gave her a new life. Nothing she feels fits better than giving back the ring, symbolizing the commitment and covenant, to him. Only a covenant, not thing else in the world, is able to seal that love, memory and sacrifice Jack had for her. Not thing else: fortune, life experience, bank account, career, even children can take palce of the covenant.
Covenant completes and fortifies a relationship
Three things mark the nature of a true covenant: first, it is a agreement that can only be broken by death. Second, a covenant partner is willing to die to oneself for the sake of their covenant partner. Last, people who are in covenant give each other the right to influence their decision.
The focus of a member in a covenant is, " I'm in this relationship for what I can give to it, not just for what I can get from it. "This rules out a cohabiting relationship: live together without covenant; this relationship can end at any given moment that is not for "me".
This rules out anything, one night stand, that breaks the covenant that supposes to be terminated only by death.
Jesus demonstrates perfectly how God is committed to his covenant to us. He came to earth to become a man and died so that the old covenant could be legally terminated. He came back to life to bring us a new covenant by his precious blood: a symbol of his life. The question to us who are in his covenant is: are we honoring that covenant as with him?
True covenant love is to give; Lust wants to get.
Is your and my house based on a covenant? Or it is based on something else?
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