Yesterday, we began discussing covenant. Jeremiah had prophesied that God would make a new covenant with his people. Today, we see what that covenant was going to be. God’s people are those who choose to follow his Son, rather than just Israel and Judah.
Does the covenant mentioned in today’s passage look familiar? Does it look like the teaching of Jesus? How has God written his law on your heart? Have you learned from God? Do you accept his forgiveness? Are you grateful for his amazing grace?
We may not think that God has written his law on our heart, but he did when he gave us his Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit interacts with our spirit and teaches us right and wrong. We often call it our conscience. But it is more than that. For the Holy Spirit also interprets God’s Word for us. He also intercedes for us in prayer when we don’t know what to pray because he knows our inner most thoughts, struggles, and needs.
Jeremiah prophesied that God would forgive our iniquity. We often disobey and need forgiveness. God said long ago that he would forgive us. Not because we deserve it but because God loves us and wants us to be with him. Through our wrongdoing and forgiveness, God continues to teach us. We continue to progress in maturity, growing to be more like Jesus. This demonstrates God’s amazing love and grace for us.
I pray we all accept God’s new covenant. I pray we listen to the Holy Spirit as he speaks to our spirit. I pray each one of us know that God loves us and covers us with his amazing grace. Accept God’s covenant. Listen to the Holy Spirit. Know you are forgiven. Know that God loves you. You are covered by God’s amazing grace.
Jeremiah 31:33-34 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: 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. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
Marty Pressey 