Scripture: Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NRSV)
In this passage in Jeremiah, God says that soon he will create a new covenant with Israel and Judah. The new covenant will not be like the old covenant, which was created when God chose the Israelites as his people and led them out of Egypt. The new covenant will be completely a part of the Israelites. It will be in their minds and hearts, and all the people will know about it.
Isn’t it amazing to imagine a world where everyone is filled with the knowledge of God? Everyone will know about the covenant, from the youngest child to the most wrinkled elder.
This week’s theme, “We wish to see Jesus,” foretells of the new covenant that Jesus will seal. When the law is in our minds and our hearts, we will be filled with God, and then we will be able to see Jesus. We’ll no longer need to teach one another how to live, because God will have filled each of us with that knowledge. We’ll no longer be like little children, who must be taught right from wrong, because we will already be filled with the knowledge and goodness that comes from seeing Jesus.
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NRSV)
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. 33But 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. 34No 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.