Prayer for grandmothers

Father, Your Word says You have commanded Your covenant forever. Not allowed. Not initiated. Commanded. That word feels solid under my feet today. The covenant does not stand because I kept it well. It stands because You spoke it. I have let good habits slide. I have kept some promises only partway. I have not been as faithful as I told myself I was. But the covenant does not rest on my faithfulness. It rests on Your command. And Yours has not wavered. Lord, I needed to hear that again this morning. The doubts I carry now are not the same as the doubts I carried when I was younger. Back then I wondered if You were real. Now I wonder if I have done enough. But this truth cuts under both. You commanded the covenant. It is forever because You said so. My doing enough was never the foundation. The foundation has been Yours all along. Set me on that foundation again today. Not on my track record. On Your command. Let me serve this day from there, light and steady, not anxious about whether I have measured up. The measuring is over because the command is forever. Amen.