Last night Paul and I listened to the sermon "The New Covenant" by Pastor Jeff Leake. I was blessed as I heard the different types of covenants that were made in Jewish tradition. The two that stuck out to me were that the two people making a covenant had a meal together, and if they were really close, they fed the meal to each other. If I'm not mistaken, this was to symbolize that all they had was the other person's, even the person himself. The next covenant that I enjoyed learning about was when two people made a covenant with one another, they would exchange robes. This was also to symbolize that what the one person had, they were willing to give to the other.
So what? Who cares? I do. The Bible says that Jesus clothes us in robes of righteousness and that Jesus became sin for us. Also, Jesus had communion with His disciples and we even have communion with Christ as He has a meal with us and feeds us and essentially is saying, "I am unwaveringly devoted to you, all I have is yours."
While reading Nehemiah 8-9 this morning, I was reminded of the many failures of the Israelites and how faithful God was to them. The prayer in chapter 9 ends with the people stating that they're oppressed and they need deliverance once more. How great do these two messages work together! Though it's clear that we cannot fix ourselves and we mess up continuously, Jesus became a human to do our part for us and put Himself in us in order to say it's no longer by our efforts.
Amen. I meditated on this all today. Jesus, I'm hungry to know You more, reveal Yourself to me.
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