Sunday, December 20, 2009
Morning and Evening: 12/21
Sunday, December 20, 2009—posted by Tom E
» Today's reading at Blue Letter Bible
God has indeed made a covenant with me. I definitely got the better end of the deal. I received forgiveness of my sins, a change in my nature and an eternal inheritance...He got me.
Here Spurgeon drives home the point that God's covenant is very personal for each believer. What an awesome thought it is to understand that God, who spoke the universe into existence, has thought it appropriate to make a covenant with me.
"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant.... 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 in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people... .In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete." Hebrews 8:7-13
"Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant." Hebrews 7:22
Spurgeon's words seem to be written for contemporary times as he writes, "How sweet amidst all the uncertainties of life, to know that "the foundation of the Lord standeth sure," and to have God's own promise, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."
This Christmas season let us ponder this celebration of God's faithfulness, the fulfillment of prophecy. It is the beginning of Christ's ministry as a man on this earth that culminated in the first covenant being made obsolete...for me. Thanks be to God.
God has indeed made a covenant with me. I definitely got the better end of the deal. I received forgiveness of my sins, a change in my nature and an eternal inheritance...He got me.
Here Spurgeon drives home the point that God's covenant is very personal for each believer. What an awesome thought it is to understand that God, who spoke the universe into existence, has thought it appropriate to make a covenant with me.
"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant.... 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 in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people... .In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete." Hebrews 8:7-13
"Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant." Hebrews 7:22
Spurgeon's words seem to be written for contemporary times as he writes, "How sweet amidst all the uncertainties of life, to know that "the foundation of the Lord standeth sure," and to have God's own promise, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."
This Christmas season let us ponder this celebration of God's faithfulness, the fulfillment of prophecy. It is the beginning of Christ's ministry as a man on this earth that culminated in the first covenant being made obsolete...for me. Thanks be to God.
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