Good Morning Friends,
“‘The time is coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of
Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I
took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my
covenant, though I was a husband to them,’ declares the LORD. ‘This is the
covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,’ declares the
LORD. ‘I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be
their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, “Know the LORD,” because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,’ declares the LORD. ‘For I will forgive
their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.’” (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
Jeremiah prophesied of a day that was in the
future from where he stood. He predicted a marvelous day. It would be a day of
a new covenant. The old covenant was an external, imposed law. The new covenant
would be a relationship from within, implanted in the hearts of those who
entered the new covenant. It would be a day of close relationship with God. It
would be a day of “knowing the Lord” and not needing priests and intermediaries
to make Him known. It would be a day of forgiveness and grace, a day in which
sin would be dealt with.
It would be a marvelous day. We live in that
day! It is not future to us. Jeremiah saw it from hundreds of years before it
happened. He saw it only in prospect, only from a distance. We see it up close.
We live it. We enjoy it. It is God’s gift to us.
A day of close relationship with Him.
A day of God implanting Himself within us.
A day of “knowing Him.”
A day of forgiveness.
A day of grace.
The day of Christ. The day in which we are
blessed to live!
His, by Grace, Steve
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