(Jer 31:35-40)
PRAYING FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS, CHURCH & NATION:
Give thanks to God for his mercy, grace and redemption (Jer 31:35-40). #NewCovenant #TheNewWay
MORNING WATCH NOTES:
The “New Covenant” is not only a premier promise of God, it is a watershed moment in the life of Israel as a nation. I don’t write to belabor the point, but to understand the significance of the inauguration of the “New Covenant.” The old Mosaic Covenant was an external one. It focused on external rituals, washings, and sacrifices as symbolic of righteous living. Israel, over the centuries, had prostituted the sacred by mixing it with what was pagan and immoral. She had lost the symbolic significance of what God had intended. It symbolized what was to come in the person of Christ.
The “New Covenant“, this New Way, would be one of spirit rather than letter. God had never intended to set up an earthly kingdom. It has always been about a spiritual kingdom from heaven. The response to God‘s divine mercy [his steadfast love] would be a worship that springs from the depths of man’s being. Deep and eternal forgiveness would elicit a surge of gratitude from within man’s soul. Fellowship with God would be the result.
Allegiance to this covenant would be motivated not by laws and judgment, but internally by freedom of choice to love and follow after God. This New Way was inaugurated by the sacrificial death of Christ on the cross for the redemption of all men. The Bible teaches, “Whosoever will may come” (Rom 10:13; Rev 22:17 (KJV)). It is a daily living choice.
Lord, thank you that you included me in your plan of redemption.
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Harrison, R.K., Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, D. J. Wiseman, editor; Jeremiah and Daniel; Tyndale Press, Downers Grove, Illinois (1973). (pgs. 138-140)
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