When children give a pinky promise, what does it mean? How about the Taft-Katsura Agreement in 1905? Or the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953?
Merriam-Webster’s defines a covenant as a binding agreement, a promise made with the intent to perform an action.
A covenant, a promise, and an agreement are one and the same.
Yet, a pinky promise is something special, the entwining of two appendages in an agreement that can never be broken. If either one breaks the promise, the other’s finger will break in sorrow.
There is one more thing. A pinky promise is forever.
Conversely, the Taft-Katsura Agreement decided nothing, only indicating the scope of influence of Japan and the United States in East Asia. The Korean Armistice Agreement did no more than postpone an end to a war that still hangs over the two Koreas.
In Deuteronomy 29:1 God made a covenant with the children of Israel. It was a binding agreement, and it carried with it a promise that remains in effect to this very day.
It was a pinky promise of the most enduring kind.
In Chapter 29, Verses 2-7, let’s look at six steps to a successful pinky promise with God.
Step 1: Know that a pinky promise is sacred.
Moses points out the calamity that overcame Pharaoh, for he chose to disobey the directives of the Lord, and God’s anger smote his land and his people.
Step 2: Remember the past wonders that God has done for us.
This passage reminds us that the memory of our temptations is to be refreshed in our thoughts, for it is by the miracle of God that we come through them to the other side.
Step 3: Understand that the Lord is all around us.
Even with our physical senses we can discern God. Our heart feels his presence, our eyes see his visible manifestation, and our ears hear his Word. How can we deny the reality of God?
Step 4: Recognize that the Lord will provide for all our needs.
In the forty years the children of Israel wandered in the desert, their clothes did not grow old, nor the soles of their shoes grow thin.
Step 5: Believe in the sanctity of God’s rules and regulations.
The forty years in the wilderness were a desert experience. The children of Israel had left prosperous Egypt, and because they did not trust God, they were not allowed in the land of milk and honey. Still, God provided them bread and drink so that they might know he is God.
Step 6: Claim our victory against the evil one.
When the kings of Heshbon and Bashan came against the children of Israel, God’s chosen people rose up and smote their oppressors unto death.
When God is on our side, no enemy can steal away what God has promised to us.
Deuteronomy 29:8 is the final verse of this passage, and it shouts with the victory that is found in God’s pinky promise with us. For with the Lord as their strength, the children of Israel took the land of the kings, and it was theirs.
When we make a pinky promise with God, he will stand by our side, and the battle will be ours. Nothing will prevail against him. We have entwined appendages with the Almighty God of Creation, and his agreement with us can never be broken.
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