Ezekiel 17:16-18
“As sure as I am the living God, this king who broke his pledge of loyalty and his covenant will die in that country, in Babylon. Pharaoh with his big army—all those soldiers!—won’t lift a finger to fight for him when Babylon sets siege to the city and kills everyone inside. Because he broke his word and broke the covenant, even though he gave his solemn promise, because he went ahead and did all these things anyway, he won’t escape.”
“No! For as surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, the kind of Israel will die in Babylon, the land of the king who put him I power and whose treaty he disregarded and broke. Pharaoh and all his mighty army will fail to help Israel when the king of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem again and destroys many lives. For the king of Israel disregarded his treaty and broke it after swearing to obey; therefore, he will not escape.”
Unlike Judah’s king, God keeps his word and the covenant he made, first with Israel and later with the Church. He is a promise keeper. This faithfulness is part of his personality, his elemental being. Those with God-toward hearts can trust this him.
Lord, thank you for your faithfulness to me over so many years. You have tended my life through all its seasons. You, the great Lord of the Universe, so big and yet so small, know and arrange all the particles of my life. Thank you for this gift of love.