“The New Covenant!”

“The New Covenant!”(Jer.31:31-34).
Two friends were together when they heard the news that the printing press had been invented. Upon hearing the news one shouted with glee, “Thank God everything will now be remembered!” The other friend was nonplussed as he told his friend: “On the contrary, everything will be written down and forgotten in memory.”
It is not important to pass a verdict on who of the friends was prophetic, but I’m often surprised to hear some students say they hate reading.
What is written is valuable if it is read and understood. When it is read and well understood the script itself becomes redundant.
The truth which many would not want to hear is that as valuable as the Bible is to us, one day it will become obsolete. The more we cling to the Bible, the more it shows that we have not absorbed its content.
The Bible reveals Christ to us and teaches us concerning what to do or not to do in order to be in harmony with the LORD and assure us of life in eternity.
The LORD says, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant…It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers….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. No longer will a man teach his neighbour, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will know me from the least of them to the greatest…For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
“The time” which the LORD talked about finally came. And so it is that “The Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after supper he took the cup saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.’…”(I Cor.11:24-26).
On this Maundy Thursday we commemorate through this meal of remembrance that the blood of Christ Jesus is the seal of the new covenant by which God has forgiven our sins and will remember them no more.
When we know Christ more and more and the power of his resurrection and the reason for his death, we will walk in his ways because what he requires of us is written in our hearts.
May we seek to know Christ more and more so that no man will teach us again to know him! May it be that “Christ in me” is not just a pronouncement, but that he should be known to be in us through our words and deeds.
Passion prayer: Lord Jesus Christ thank you for your blood of the new covenant through which our sins have been forgiven. Amen!
Have a blessed Maundy Thursday! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.