“I will remember My covenant” (Genesis 9:15)

It’s a good thing God said He’d remember what He promised when He saw the rainbow. If it was left to mankind to remind Him, there probably would have been at least ten or twelve worldwide floods so far. He promised, “The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth” (Genesis 9:16).

It’s the same with the saint’s covenant with Christ. If salvation depended on saints reminding God of His covenant, they’d have to get saved at least a hundred times a day. It’s not my remembering God, it’s God's remembering me which is the ground of my safety; it’s not my laying hold of His covenant, but His covenant's laying hold of me. Glory be to God! My salvation is secured and maintained by God’s power. My Salvation is a “package deal”, planned and executed by God.

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,  even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ … it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:4-10).

Christ said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (John 6:44), and saints are “born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13). Salvation isn’t by man, but by the Lord. We should remember the covenant, and we shall do it, through divine grace; but the hinge of our safety doesn’t hang there – praise God! It’s God's remembering us, not our remembering Him!