A New Covenant

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While his people languish in loss and exile, God speaks to them through the prophet Jeremiah that though they have been uprooted, he will once again "plant and build" them. And he makes an interesting promise to them:

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke…. I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jeremiah 31:31-34).

So a future hope that is different than his work among them in past times is offered. Sunday we’ll look at this covenant, how it differs from the ‘old’ covenant God made with Israel through Moses at Sinai, and how we participate in this new covenant even now through Christ.

See you Sunday!

Jay+

As we behold the face of God in the face of Christ, we are transformed into his image. This is what it means to be fully human—to become like Jesus, the truly human one, and to grow more and more in the freedom of the children of God.