The Blood of the New Covenant (#263 of 365+)

“‘The time is coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I
took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,’ declares the LORD. ‘This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people’” (Jeremiah 31:31-33)

As any other nation on earth would have done, Israel sinned and broke their part of the covenant with the Lord. But thankfully the Father found a way to satisfy his sense of justice towards sin that also fulfilled his desire to be in relationship with mankind. The answer was his son, Jesus Christ.

“For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant… He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant” (Hebrews 9:15)

“You have come to God, the judge of all men… to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word” (Hebrews 12:23-24)

Jesus Christ was the perfect mediator between man and God because he was both fully man and fully God. That’s why some call him “the God-man.” Jesus was not only sinless—he was (and is) holy. He’s the only One who could ever fully satisfy the righteous requirements of the law and be the unblemished sacrificial Lamb of God.

He willingly offered himself out of love for the Father and for every single one of us. So redemption is possible for everyone no matter what sin they have committed. A new and better way—real life and a relationship with God—is waiting within the grasp of anyone who is interested.

Are you interested? Take hold of the Savior today.

Lord, thank you for your incomparable gift and for doing what I could never do for myself. Amen.