Established Through Understanding Proverbs 24:3

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Proverbs 24:3-4 says

By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
4 through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures.

All throughout the Old Testament God said he would establish his covenant with the people and in Deuteronomy chapter 7 he calls it a covenant of love. In Ephesians 3 Paul prays that God's the people would be rooted and established in love. 

To be established means to be firm, fixed, confirmed, standing up, or to arise. We are to be established in God's covenant of love with us, but we must understand the covenant and get it established in our hearts. 

A covenant is like an agreement or contract. God has obligated himself in the New Covenant to steadfast, unconditional, unfailing love. His love and grace for us is not dependent on our actions, it is unconditional. To become established we must understand this, receive it, and let his love flow through us to others.

Our role in the covenant is also to become established in our covenant commitment to loving God and others as ourselves. This commitment means it is not dependent on how people treat us or how we feel, we love unconditionally just like God has done for us, because it is his love flowing through us. And yes, if we slip up there is always grace.