A Radically “New” Covenant

HEBREWS 8:7-13… “For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. For finding fault with them, He says, “Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not care for them, says the Lord. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, and everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know Me, from the least to the greatest of them. “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

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Oh Lord, My God, thank You for displaying Your incredible wisdom in the giving of the new covenant in Christ. Your old covenant taught us much about Your character, Your holiness, Your righteousness, as well as our own human frailty, faults, and shortcomings. Most of all, it taught us the insufficiency of law, the Law of Moses, or any other religious law, to bridge the gap between You in all Your purity and splendor and mortal human beings whom You still love though so plagued by sin. Your old law has convicted us of our need for a Savior. As a tutor, it has served its purpose in pointing us to Jesus, our only Lord and Savior. And now we can celebrate authentic love, eternal life with You, and freedom—freedom from the consequences of sin, freedom from the tyranny of adherence to any kind of regulatory religious law meant to save us—within the scope and expanse of Your new covenant in Christ.

Lord, I want to keep it real. Help me, Oh Lord, to keep it real and to keep it spiritual. May Your Holy Spirit enlighten the eyes of my heart so that I’m not sidetracked or enslaved by anyone’s feeble attempts at human wisdom and reasoning in propagating some man-made, self-made, religious ideology with its rules, regulations, restrictions, or requirements. Thank You for setting me free to celebrate every day as a holy day. Thank you for setting me free to enjoy every place as a beautiful holy place. Thank you for allowing everything that I do and say to become worship and praise unto You if I deem it so and it is in keeping with that which is good, and pure, and honorable, and holy in Your sight. Thank you for allowing my body, my work, my very life on earth to become a living and holy sacrifice unto You. Lord, may I live that way!

By the authority, with the permission, and in the name of Your beautiful and precious Son, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I offer this prayer, the fruit of my lips, as a sacrifice of praise unto You… amen, and amen!