"I will be their God, and they shall be my people," Jeremiah 31:33.
God promises a new covenant with his people: but it sounds like the former covenant, doesn't it? What's new? The people had already covenanted to be true to God and he to be their true protection, the terms written on stone tablets. But then they betrayed. Sought protection in kings after their own likeness. In other gods. In their own might. Own technologies. Own skill. Own wisdom. Own alliances. Own revolutions. Own stony hearts. So. What's new? Covenant terms are now written on human hearts. (No stone hearts or tablets.) They shall all know me, says Jehovah: I will remember their sins no more.
We contact a brother or sister today and remind that Jesus paid it all. All to him we owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, he washed it white as snow. And we, God's own people, give heart-moved thanks to our Lord.
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