Testament

"I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah," Jeremiah 31:31.

New agreement? new testament? new deal? Hmm. But first, what was the covenant they already had? Well, it was the covenant God had made with them some nine centuries earlier. Yeah. When God brought them handily out of Egyptian slavery. They agreed to make God their God and to follow his Law. God agreed he would protect them and bless them forever. (Pretty sweet deal!) But they violated it big time. And God's covenant protections went away. By now, only left-overs of this people remained. In captivity. again. So. God promised a new, different covenant. Of utter forgiveness.

When we visit with a brother or sister today we share in that new covenant with God. And together we give thanks that through it he forgives our every sin.