Hebrews 13:20 Now may the God of peace—who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, and ratified an eternal covenant with his blood—21 may He equip you with all you need for doing His will.  May He produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to Him.

All glory to Him forever and ever! Amen.

Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

God is at work!  He is at work in you!

God made an eternal covenant that is the final covenant and it was ratified by the blood of Jesus.

God did not ask you or I to bring something to the table for this covenant to be put into place.  It was put into place at the cross where Jesus took our sin upon Himself and then gave to us His righteousness.

You and I do not have a pseudo righteousness that we set out to earn by living a good life.  The righteousness we were given is God’s own righteousness.  That is why the love we receive is the same love Jesus received and the fellowship we get to enjoy is the same fellowship Jesus enjoys.

The goal on the part of God was to fix things in a way that we could not mess up.

You have been saved by a God who is all wise, powerful and capable of saving to the uttermost those who come to Him by faith in Jesus.

Coming to Jesus did something so supernatural and powerful we have yet to fully comprehend the depth of its work.

You have been saved to the uttermost when you came to Jesus.

Not because of any devotion on your part, not because you had put your life together enough to be worthy of approaching, but because you were completely undone and the Holy Spirit revealed the truth concerning Jesus and you believed it.

You became a new creation a species that never before existed until that moment in time when Jesus came to dwell in you.  You are no longer who you once were and you are nothing like anyone else on this planet.  God is now at work in you on the basis of a covenant that is unbreakable and eternal in the heavens.

Rejoice today the Father and the Son left nothing undone as it pertains to you. Everything that could potentially derail the plan to save you was taken out of the way when the Father made a covenant with the Son. He made sure you could be saved to the uttermost by making an eternal covenant once and for all.