DAILY WORD 7/16/20

13. When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.

Hebrews 8:13 NLT

I missed a Verse….oops. Well, whatever. This is a good one anyway and if it gets its own space to breathe so be it. We’ve been talking about Jesus Becoming The Great High Priest and all that this transition entails.

First; it meant that the old Levitical priesthood was preempted. Jesus, as the Sacrifice for our sins, took over the role that those fallible priests once held and became the Advocate for before God. He also Became the Sacrifice for our sins at the very same time.

Next; He Created a New Covenant between God and man that was better than the first in that now all the barriers that kept us from Him directly were destroyed. Now we can come to God through the Spirit and have our needs met without the proxy of a human priest.

Finally; this New Pact is Everlasting because God is Everlasting and since Jesus is the Embodiment of God and He is The Great High Priest then the Promise itself is Everlasting. Because of all this, the Covenant we broke by disobeying God is broken and obsolete.

All things that are useless and dead will be cast away. This includes the old Covenant. So, when God made His New Covenant with mankind it immediately began the process of doing away with the old one, whether mankind knew it or not.

Now, with this New Promise, we have an opportunity to take our Salvation into our own hands and manage how we come to God. It is no longer subject to another human’s flawed point of view, schedule, or opinion. If we mess it all up, we have no one else to blame!

This New Covenant comes with both a Blessing and a Curse. We have the Freedom to come to God how and when we please but now we have to make sure we do it before it is too late. If we miss the boat it is all on us. “With Great Power comes Great Responsibility!”

Have a Thought-Provoking Thursday and Stay Safe out there!