You may not be able to see it now, but...

You may not be able to see it now, but the subject of this post is a very big subject:

http://7holybooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/work-and-divine-covenant.html

It connects the Work to the Plan of God directly. The Holy Spirit has given you practical knowledge of the commands of God. What you do. When you do them, as a regenerated, awakened, human being, you fulfill your part of the covenant God has made with you, and God rewards you. When you slack off from doing your part the blessings are withdrawn. It's not about justification, you have that, but it's about reward and rewards being taken away. Sinning won't make you lose your salvation once justified and converted and all that, but it will make you suffer. God does discipline his own, as a father does. You'll come around again, but with Work knowledge you are given a bit more than the usual that is given to believers.

While I was learning of Covenant Theology I was asking myself similar questions I'd had when learning all the mountain of B Influence: "But what is it that I do? Practically..."

The term 'covenant living' never did much for me. I'd read it and know something was 'there', but the theologians weren't elucidating it. They would mostly talk of sacraments and going to church at that point.

Now I can see it. The two conscious shocks are mysteries you engage in as part of the Covenant God has made with you. And when you do them, I'll use Packer's words:

"The covenant promise itself, "I will be your God," is an unconditional undertaking on God's part to be "for us" (Rom. 8:31), "on our side" (Ps. 124:1-5), using all his resources for the furthering of the ultimate good of those ("us") to whom he thus pledges himself. "I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God" (Ex. 6:7), the covenant promise constantly repeated throughout both testaments (Gen. 17:6-8; Ex. 20:2, 29:45 f.;Lev. 11:45; Jer. 32:38; Ezk. 11:20, 34:30 f., 36:28; 2 Cor. 6:16-18; Rev. 21:2 f.; etc.), may fairly be called the pantechnicon promise, inasmuch as every particular promise that God makes is packed into it -- fellowship and communion first ("I will be with you," "I will dwell among them," "I will live among you," etc.), and then the supply of every real need, here and hereafter. Sovereignty and salvation, love and largesse, election and enjoyment, affirmation and assurance, fidelity and fulness thus appear as the spectrum of themes (the second of each pair being the fruit of the first as its root) that combine to form the white light, glowing and glorious, of the gracious self-giving of God to sinners that covenant theology proclaims."