God never forsakes those who follow. Both partners keep a covenant, steeped in love, to live together all their lives. That's still, perhaps, the best way we have of understanding God's covenant. Yet sinners we remain, dependent on God's amazing grace. Sometimes we just don't understand the significance of what is going on all around us.
Events move too quickly to be sorted out or too slowly to be noticed.
It was like that for the disciples too. Although Jesus had tried to prepare them for his crucifixion, they were stunned that Passover night when he was arrested. They ran like the wind. In an ideal world, love, denial and betrayal wouldn't go together. But in the real world, they often do.