The New and Everlasting Covenant

It’s hard to tease out what exactly the new and everlasting covenant is, once you decide its not just polygamy.
The Lovely One gave me two clues yesterday.

First, she pointed out that President Nelson taught that there is one overarching covenant of which all actual covenants are an aspect and to which they lead us (“the covenant path”).
Second, she said that President Oaks once said that testament and covenant were interchangeable, so that the Book of Mormon could be read as “Another Covenant of Jesus Christ.” Which means that each dispensation is its own covenant, but some aspect of the over-arching covenant.

It put me in mind of a 3-dimensional ball covered in lines and images. Dipped in ink and pressed to the paper, the resulting stamp would be different every time. But it would be from the same, unchanging source. One might say, a new stamp from an everlasting source. Each covenant is new–because it is a different, customized variation, because it is being made right now–and everlasting, because it is a slice of the unchanging pattern.

Like revelation, half the point is not the content, but the experience and miracle of making covenants with God.

Or maybe better put, the experience and the content are one.

The startling thing from this is the realization that I may be able to make my own covenants with the Lord, if He is willing to make specific covenants with me.