Psalm 25:14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

It is one thing to read the promises of God and another to see them. The shining is this revelation of His glory, the essence of who God is not only in word but in promises kept. His promises are kept in three ways; dependent, independent and consequential.

Within His dependent promises is a requirement of performance on man’s part. God says in these promises, if you will I will. God is not obligated to keep His promise because it is dependent on man to do his part. Many of the Mosaic laws are written specifically that way.

God’s independent promises are not provisional because God declares I will. Man has no obligation of performance in these promises. These promises are often directed towards specific circumstances and not any individual. In covenant relationship independent promises, individuals are directly affected.

The third type is usually lost on people because of the inherent nature of the cause. Sin has entered into the world and because of that consequences occur which affect everyone regardless of performance or relationship. We see in these times and places that sins committed half way around the globe influence us here because we have become a global community. It has always been this way but we are just now seeing how we as a world are connected in ways that we are only now becoming aware.

Two of these promises are temporal. Part of God’s independent promises are not. Those are His prophetic promises which outlast man’s dependency and sins involvement. The only escape from man’s dependency and sins involvement is God’s secret covenant.

Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 3:3  And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

God changes circumstances, He does this alone, with no help from me. So what is my part in all this?

In verse one I cried out to Him. I’d found myself unhappy, unfulfilled, and in danger. Nothing I had tried changed any of that. So I cried out to God to change my circumstances.

Now how did I know to turn to this God? That is simlpe because the next verse explains what someone did in response to God saving them.

Psalm 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

They became a witness of God’s great mercy.

Now it is time to do my part. I should do what others have done for me, witness.

Something mystical happens in our transformation. So much has change because God loves us. As a new born babe in Christ there is so much to learn, adjustments, becoming that new creation.

Psalm 40:5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

In that complexity we lose sight of the simplicity.

Psalm 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Do you keep Him hidden in your heart or do you use your voice to praise Him for all He has done?

Psalm 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

The Good News is that we do not do this alone.