Incessant

"He ends the first in order to set up the second," Hebrews 10:9.

He who? God. The first what? the former covenant. The second what? the new covenant. So. What's God's action? God ends the former covenant with its deadly inaccessibility for real people into God's presence. All the stuff about the temple, its instruments and its divisions, all the stuff about thousands upon thousands of animals slaughtered in sacrifice, all the meticulous stuff about the priesthood, its incessant cleansings ... all this stuff goes away. God sets up a new covenant providing regular people living access into God's presence through Jesus. By faith in Jesus as the Christ, the son of God, being made holy by Jesus' single sacrifice, people now draw near to God with confident assurance.

We meet with a brother or sister today assured of God's forgiveness in the new covenant. And, together, we live thankfully following Jesus confidently right into God's graceful hand.