“In Christ Jesus Old Things Have Been Made New!”

“In Christ Jesus Old Things Have Been Made New!”(Heb,8:1-13).
There was a time when an African country said its new constitution was to be applied progressively, and to be used side by side of the old constitution.
I am not a legal mind, so pardon my ignorance, but I think that the day a new constitution is declared as a working document, the old one becomes obsolete.
We do not just get up one morning and decide to change an old constitution. The need for a new one arises when there is a problem with the old one. Scripture states,“For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.”
Again,“By calling this covenant ‘new,’ he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.”
The Mosaic covenant was found obsolete together with all that were associated to it. That is why there was need for a new covenant. Jesus has received a ministry which “is as superior” to the priestly ministry of the old covenant, and “the covenant of which he is mediator is supetior to the old one, and is founded on better promises.”
Jesus Christ is the moment of fulfilment. God had found fault with the people and said, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant…I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
This new covenant has been fulfilled through the Lord Jesus Christ, who has made this possible by being the sacrificial lamb, but at the same time becoming the great intercessor.
Dear friend, when through Jesus Christ the new law of love is written in our hearts, all our decisions and actions will be motivated by love and the zeal to do what is pleasing in the sight of God.
May we approach the throne of grace in humility, asking God to write his laws in our hearts to make our hearts veritable temples of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer of the week: Father, put your laws in our minds and write them in our hearts so that we may all know you, through Jesus Christ. Amen!
Welcome back to a new working day and week! Have a blessed day and week! Peace be with you!