Entering the Covenant

We have free will to re-enter into an intimate relationship with whom we worship. That invitation is before us – on-goingly to re-establish our covenant with God. If and when we do so, our lives are much enriched.

 

Entering the Covenant

Selections from Nitzavim in Deuteronomy 29.9 - 30.20

 

We stand this day all of us before God                                          Deut: 29.9

 

Let us enter again into the sacred covenant

If you’ll be our God, we’ll be your people

If you’ll be my people, I’ll be your God

 

Thus God is established as our beloved

And we are established as God’s people

 

As we return to God and heed these teachings

With all heart and soul, God restores our fortunes.                       Deut: 30.3

As we walk in harmony and kindness and pass it on, we too are blessed

 

God is bringing us together from the four corners of the earth

Into the land our ancestors occupied

An awakened state, all our parts come together in oneness

 

As we walk in these teachings

God is opening our hearts to love all and serve all

 

We experience abounding prosperity in all our undertakings

God delights in our well-being

 

Set before us this day is life or death, prosperity or adversity  

Heaven and earth are called and present to witness our choices

 

Surely this isn’t baffling to you – or beyond your reach

Choose life, choose love, choose the Lord your God                   

 

By following these teachings and holding fast to their source

You will live and long endure in this Promised Land

 

Which is the consciousness of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob      

Who are the personifications of loving-kindness, courage and perfected faith

 

 

Offer up the fruits of your knowledge and you’ll see me as both the one and the many.

Wherever you look, you will see my face.

-- Bhagavad Gita 9:15