Ezekiel 16:60

Ezekiel 16:60 says, Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.  God said that He would remember His covenant with them made when they were first becoming a nation of God’s people, even if they had forgotten it.  When God gives His word, it will never fail to be true, even if people stop believing it. God then said He would establish an everlasting covenant with them, which He did when He sent Jesus Christ to die in their place so that anyone who put their faith in Him would be able to enter into this everlasting covenant.  This covenant would not be based on keeping God’s law, which people were unable to do, but on a personal relationship with God through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, which was always the only way to enter into this everlasting covenant.  Before Jesus Christ came, they had faith in His coming and after He came, they and we have faith in the fact that He came.   

Verse sixty-one adds, Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.  God said when He gave them this new covenant that they would remember their ways and be ashamed and repent and come to Him.  When we come to Jesus Christ by faith and accept Him as our Savior and Lord, we should remember what we were before and be ashamed of it.  God said when He did this, that He would accept them once more.  This was not based on the fact that they were born into the kingdom of Israel but on their putting their faith in His new covenant.  We cannot become a child of God by the fact of where we were born or by our own righteousness but can only come to Him by faith in Jesus Christ.  Faith in Him as our Savior and Lord is the new covenant.   

Verse sixty-two continues, And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord:  God said that when He established this new covenant with them that they would know that He is God.  We cannot become a Christian and not know that God is the only God.   

Verse sixty-three concludes, That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.  God said that when they entered into this new covenant that they could no longer boast of their own goodness because they knew the shame that they brought to Him by doing this.  God then said that when they entered into this new covenant that He would be pacified toward them.  It is only through faith in Jesus Christ, the new covenant, that a person can be reconciled to God, and then we should feel shame for what we had been before, but I don’t believe that we should dwell on it.