Covenant with God

The Bible is full of references to the covenant between God and many of the people in the Bible, like Abraham and others. That covenant goes something like this: if you will be faithful in your work for Me, that is God, I will take care of you. I’m grateful to learn in Christian Science that the covenant, that promise of God, is in fact a law. Throughout the entire universe that law is true for everyone in every time.

I was reminded recently of an experience I had a couple of years ago. I had to schedule a business trip in early February, in the middle of the winter, and this was a trip where it was appropriate for my wife to accompany me. In scheduling the trip and the meetings, I took into consideration the fact that my wife is also a Christian Science practitioner and needs the mornings to be able to take her calls. We also did not want to miss any church services on Wednesday or Sunday. So, when I took all of this into consideration for flight schedules, there was only one flight in each direction that would enable us to meet all of our obligations for the church. I scheduled those flights, and I scheduled meetings around them.

As we were approaching the time of the trip, there were forecasts of severe storms threatening our ability to take the trip. However, our flight out of New Jersey took place, and it was perfect. It left just before a big snowstorm arrived in New Jersey. All of the other flights were canceled that day.

On our return flight the same kind of thing happened. As we prepared to board our flight home to New Jersey, there was a forecast of a severe snowstorm in New Jersey. There was a question whether our flight would be able to leave, but it did leave, and landed in New Jersey minutes before another big snowstorm hit. All the other flights back to New Jersey that day were canceled.

This was a wonderful proof of God’s covenant, and an example that when we put God’s work first in our lives, He does take care of everything. I’m very grateful to God for taking care of this whole situation, and making sure we were where we needed to be to take care of His business. I’m grateful to Mary Baker Eddy for giving us God’s Science of Christianity, where the promises of God are shown to be divine law that we can count on when we fulfill our part of that covenant.