Day 35
Bible Text: Jeremiah 31:31-32
"'The day is coming,' says the Lord, 'when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,' says the Lord."
What Jeremiah predicted in “the day is coming," is now here! The “new covenant” he prophesied, Jesus fulfilled when he said, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many” (Mark 14:24), when he instituted the Lord’s Supper with his disciples.
The old covenant, like a wedding vow between God and his people, kept getting broken as God’s people, committed spiritual “adultery," by going after other gods and rejecting his way. This landed them in Egypt as slaves, for 400 years. But God showed his incredible and tangible love by freeing his people, renewing his relationship with them and taking them to the promised land. He renewed his vow, in an unbreakable marriage covenant, to love his people like a faithful husband loves his wife.
You and I, as God’s people (through faith in Christ) are also recipients of his new covenant! What we did to create a barrier between ourselves and God, has been paid for and wiped clean on the cross.
You are no longer your own, or the world’s, or worse, the evil one’s. You are part of the Bride of Christ, with an unbreakable promise, that he will love you no matter what.
Will you let “the day is coming” be TODAY? Will you respond to this new covenant, by placing your trust and love in Jesus Christ? If so, you will experience him “taking you by the hand” and bringing you out of slavery, from all things evil, to himself, to his embrace!
Prayer: By the authority of Christ’s name and according to his promise, I declare THIS DAY to be the day I respond by renewing my marriage vow with God. To love him back, as he has first loved me. To forsake all other “lovers”, and to live today as Christ’s alone. I want this for my fellow citizens of this country as well, Lord. In Jesus’ name.
By Pastor Kevin Schuessler
"'The day is coming,' says the Lord, 'when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,' says the Lord."
What Jeremiah predicted in “the day is coming," is now here! The “new covenant” he prophesied, Jesus fulfilled when he said, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many” (Mark 14:24), when he instituted the Lord’s Supper with his disciples.
The old covenant, like a wedding vow between God and his people, kept getting broken as God’s people, committed spiritual “adultery," by going after other gods and rejecting his way. This landed them in Egypt as slaves, for 400 years. But God showed his incredible and tangible love by freeing his people, renewing his relationship with them and taking them to the promised land. He renewed his vow, in an unbreakable marriage covenant, to love his people like a faithful husband loves his wife.
You and I, as God’s people (through faith in Christ) are also recipients of his new covenant! What we did to create a barrier between ourselves and God, has been paid for and wiped clean on the cross.
You are no longer your own, or the world’s, or worse, the evil one’s. You are part of the Bride of Christ, with an unbreakable promise, that he will love you no matter what.
Will you let “the day is coming” be TODAY? Will you respond to this new covenant, by placing your trust and love in Jesus Christ? If so, you will experience him “taking you by the hand” and bringing you out of slavery, from all things evil, to himself, to his embrace!
Prayer: By the authority of Christ’s name and according to his promise, I declare THIS DAY to be the day I respond by renewing my marriage vow with God. To love him back, as he has first loved me. To forsake all other “lovers”, and to live today as Christ’s alone. I want this for my fellow citizens of this country as well, Lord. In Jesus’ name.
By Pastor Kevin Schuessler
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