Psalm 78:36-37 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

How much do you really know about the covenant that God made alone? The meaning of covenant has changed over the years to implicate two parties but in the Old Testament economy God made a covenant alone, man had no part in it, except to receive the blessings. God said, I will, and nothing man said could change what God had declared. All man had to do to receive the blessing was to remember God’s covenant.

Yet again and again man failed to praise God for all He had done and returned to complaining about their hunger in the flesh and asked to be satisfied physically rather than spiritually. In this man has not changed. More give me more, I am not satisfied.

Psalm 78:38-39 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

We have seen God’s mercy over and over again in this life. Forgiveness is freely given. It is so freely given we give little to no heed to the consequences of sin. We continue to provoke God by seeking satisfaction of the flesh. Give me more.

Psalm 78:40-41 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

In this is the true failure of Christians, who by lying lips and selfish hearts have kept the blessings of God’s covenant with man from flowing out from us to those whom God would have compassion upon because we act selfishly.