A Sleeping Partner Who Benefits

In the world of business, sleeping or silent partners don't really work their sweat out but still take home huge profits. They are like the wife of the boxing champion. He gets badly beaten up to win the prize money. However, when he gets home, his wife takes it from him and says, ''Thank you very much, darling!''

Friend, do you know that in your covenant with God, you are like the boxer's wife - a sleeping partner?
When Abraham asked God how he would know for sure that he would inherit the land that God had promised him, God made a covenant with him. Nonetheless, instead of cutting the covenant with Abraham by walking in between the animal pieces with him, God put Abraham into a deep deep sleep and cut the covenant with our Lord Jesus.

In other words, Jesus took Abraham's place. he was perfect Man representing Abraham when He cut the covenant with His Father. By Substituting Abraham with Jesus, God was being gracious because if Abraham had done it, he would also have been responsible for keeping the covenant. Poor Abraham, being a mere man would fail. But God the Son can never fail! Abraham's blessings were therefore guaranteed because they did not depend on his performance but Jesus' performance. Abraham was literally a sleeping partner, a beneficiary of the covenant.

Today, God has also made a covenant with you, called the new covenant. And like Abraham, you are a sleeping partner because the new covenant was also cut between God the Father and God the Son at Calvary. You are simply a beneficiary of the new covenant. You enjoy all its benefits without having to work at keeping it. Jesus, your representative, has already fulfilled all the conditions on your behalf and because His obedience is perfect and His work is perfectly finished, the covenant blessings for you are guaranteed!

There is nothing left for you to do my friend, but everything for you is believe. For believing is receiving. There no need for you to work out your covenant of blessings. What you need is to rest in the Son's finished work and receive them by faith!