Main news for 16 March 2017

Reading the Bible, it is easy to be persuaded that all the history of God's relationships with His people is full of contradictions. On one hand, "the union-covenant", the gift of the Torah, the promises, given to Abraham and fulfilled by God in all possible for our world fullness. On the other - apostasy, spiritual decline, the violation of commandments given by God, which their non-observation makes "the union-covenant" to lose generally all its sense. But God does not abandon His people even when the people turn away from Him. Why so? By pity?

Or in the hope that the next attempt will be more successful than the previous one? Hardly: because God knows His people as a whole and every person in particular, He sees who is capable of what and understands that the indulgence to human sinfulness will not help the fight against sin.

It is clear for Him, as in nobody else, that the people will not change, until He Himself does so. And all the same God remains faithful to the union concluded once. What obliges Him to keep the faithfulness with those who think of faithfulness often as a last resort? Obviously one thing: the love to those who He chose once, that He raised from tribe to nation, to whom He gave the land promised to Abraham.

What is happening can not be explained otherwise. And the same love certainly obliges God not to exclude His people from this plan, which due to his election was once part of. That is why, apparently, He realizes His intention, and often not because of, but in spite of the spiritual and moral qualities and the efforts of His people. In order to save all the same every person, who can be saved.