Let God Prevail

• Anytime we do anything that helps anyone—on either side of the veil—to make and keep their covenants with God, we are helping to gather Israel.  

• His covenant with us depends on our individual willingness to repent and live the gospel.  President Nelson notes, "If you are married to a companion who has broken his or her covenants, your willingness to let God prevail in your life will allow your covenants with God to remain intact."  In like manner, the gathering of Israel takes place one by one.  We each play a central role in the gathering of Israel. 

• When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.  His pattern is one of "using the unlikely to accomplish the impossible." -Accomplishing the Impossible by President Russell M. Nelson

• "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days…I will put My law within them and on their heart, I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people…for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." (Jeremiah 31:31)

•  We live in a world that is largely dependent on agreements, pacts and treaties to keep some semblance of order. Some of these agreements last longer than others. Eventually the terms are compromised in some way. Yet, each of us has the opportunity to take part in a pact with our Creator that will last forever and live with the assurance of promises that will never be broken. -Promises, Promises: The Concept of Covenant and Why We Should Care by Amer Olson

• As God’s covenant people, Israel has been given a special charge and commission.  Covenant Israel has a responsibility to take the gospel to all the world and be a witness of God’s work and glory.

• God reestablished His covenant with Israel in mortality but the promises are honored beyond the grave.  “Nor is this covenant confined to mortal life. It extends beyond the grave and into the celestial kingdom. The children of Abraham, if they will keep the covenant as they receive it in the house of the Lord, shall, as Abraham their father, continue on through all eternity to increase, and there shall be no end to their posterity. In this way the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are extended to them, and they become partakers to the fullest extent. For there is to be a continuation of the ‘seeds forever’ among those who receive exaltation in the kingdom of God. This is the promise, and there shall come through Abraham kings and priests and rulers, not only on this earth but in the heavens, and so shall it be worlds without end” -Joseph Fielding Smith

• How does this change what we do?  We see ourselves as part of the house of Israel, stewards of the covenant, with a commission to “Go save my people”.  We can ask ourselves, “Am I willing to make and keep covenants?”  We can follow our prophet’s plea to step up and help bring about the gathering.  We say through our actions, “I’m here, choose me”.