GENESIS
Beyond Ordinary View
With
YOGI JIANANDA
The Unbreakable Agreement:
"And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;" (Genesis 9:9)
God speaks these words to Noah after the flood. The earth is fresh and clean. The storm has passed. Noah stands on dry ground with his family. And God makes a promise. Not just to Noah, but to all who will come after him. This is a covenant, an agreement that cannot be broken.
The word "establish" carries weight. God does not say "I might make" or "I will try." God says "I establish." This means the covenant already exists in the mind of the Divine. God is simply declaring what is true, making visible what was always intended.
We live inside this covenant whether we know it or not. The agreement God made with Noah extends through time to us. We are the seed that comes after. The promise covers us too.
But here is the profound part: God makes this covenant without asking for anything in return. Noah does not have to sign a contract. He does not have to promise to be perfect. He does not have to earn the covenant through good behavior. God simply establishes it. The initiative comes entirely from the Divine side.
This reveals something essential about the nature of Reality itself. The relationship between the Creator and the created is not based on our worthiness. It is based on the character of the One who creates. God chooses covenant. God chooses connection. God chooses to bind the Divine Self to humanity in an unbreakable bond.
We struggle to believe this. We have been taught that relationships require equal exchange. We think love must be earned. We assume that if we fail, the bond will break. So we live in anxiety, trying desperately to hold up our end, terrified that one mistake will void the agreement.
But the covenant with Noah teaches us differently. God says "I establish." Not "we establish together." Not "you establish and I will respond." Just "I establish." The covenant stands on the integrity of God alone.
Think about the relationships in your life. How much energy do you spend trying to secure them? How often do you perform, adjust, and modify yourself to make sure people will keep loving you? How frequently do you wake in the night anxious that you have done something to break the bond?
This is exhausting. And it is unnecessary. Because the deepest covenant, the one that holds everything else together, has already been established. You did not create it. You cannot break it. Your worthiness is not the foundation. The unchanging nature of Divine Love is the foundation.
God says "with you, and with your seed after you." This covenant reaches forward through generations. It touches people who have not yet been born. It extends beyond individual lives into the flow of Life itself. This means the covenant is not fragile. It is not dependent on any single person getting everything right. It is woven into the fabric of existence.
When we grasp this truth, something shifts in us. The chronic anxiety about being good enough begins to ease. We stop performing for approval. We realize we are already included, already held, already secured in an agreement we did not have to negotiate.
But knowing this intellectually is not the same as living from it. We must practice receiving the covenant. We must train ourselves to rest in the promise rather than scrambling to earn it.
Here is a simple practice: Each morning when you wake, before you check your phone or begin your tasks, place both hands over your heart. Feel your heartbeat. This rhythm in your chest did not start because you earned it. It flows from the covenant of Life itself. Say quietly, "I am held in an unbreakable agreement. I do not have to secure my own existence."
Do this for thirty days. Let it become a foundation beneath your daily activities. Let it remind you that you are not holding yourself in being through effort. Consciousness is holding you through covenant.
The covenant God establishes is not based on conditions. God does not say "I will keep this promise if you do these ten things." God simply says "I establish." This is grace. This is the bedrock reality beneath all our striving and struggling. We are loved, held, and included not because we have performed well but because the Divine has chosen covenant as the fundamental relationship.
This does not mean we never fail or that our actions have no consequences. It means our failures do not nullify the covenant. When Noah later gets drunk and lies naked in his tent, the covenant remains. When his sons act foolishly, the covenant remains. When humanity falls again and again into violence and selfishness, the covenant remains. Because it was never based on human reliability. It was based on Divine commitment.
You have failed. You will fail again. You have broken promises, hurt people, fallen short of your own standards. None of this has broken the covenant. The agreement God established with Noah and his descendants still holds you. Your mistakes have not voided it. Your weakness has not shaken it. Your doubt has not dissolved it.
This truth penetrates deeper the longer we sit with it. We have spent so much energy trying to be worthy. We have exhausted ourselves attempting to earn what was already freely given. The covenant stands. It always has. Our task is not to create security but to recognize the security that already exists.
As you move through your day, pay attention to the moments when you feel you must earn love, acceptance, or belonging. Feel the tension that arises in those moments. That tension comes from forgetting the covenant. It comes from believing you must establish the agreement yourself. You do not. It has been established. By God. Before you were born. And it reaches forward to include every generation that comes after you.
Rest in this. Return to it again and again. Let the covenant become more real to you than your anxiety. Let the promise become louder than your fear. Let the established agreement be the ground you stand on, the air you breathe, the truth you return to when everything else feels uncertain.
God says "I establish." We say "I receive." That is the whole of it. That is the covenant that holds the universe together and holds your life within it.
5 Principles for Reflection
The principle of Divine Initiative: The fundamental covenant of existence originates entirely from the Source; Consciousness establishes relationship with us before we even seek it or know ourselves.
The principle of Unearned Inclusion: We are held within the covenant not because of worthiness but because of Divine commitment; Nature does not require our perfection to sustain us.
The principle of Generational Continuity: The agreement extends beyond individual lives into the flow of Life itself; Awareness weaves covenant through time, touching those yet unborn with the same promise.
The principle of Irrevocable Bond: Our failures and shortcomings do not void the covenant established by the Divine; Consciousness remains faithful even when we forget the agreement entirely.
The principle of Receiving Security: Our task is not to create safety through performance but to recognize the unbreakable agreement already holding us; Nature invites us to rest rather than strive.