Today is February 1st.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Take a moment and quiet yourself. Take a deep breath. Welcome God’s presence. And say, “Come Holy Spirit.”

Today’s reading is from the Book of Jeremiah 31.


“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors 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 people 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. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”


Throughout the Bible, God reveals His redemptive plan through a series of covenants: the Abrahamic Covenant, the Sinai Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, and finally, the New Covenant that came through Jesus Christ. Jeremiah is an OT prophet who is looking ahead to the coming of Christ and describing what will be a new kind of covenant… one that brings completion to God’s redemptive purposes. The old covenants came with a series of religious obligations and rules that were only for the religious insiders, and that had to be followed meticulously. The New Covenant of Christ comes through God’s grace and is available to everyone – ‘the least of them to the greatest’. How does make you feel?

The Lord speaks through Jeremiah and says I will be their God, and they will be my people. As you hear the passage read again… can you get present to what this ‘new covenant’ means for you, personally?

God made a way, through the new covenant of Jesus, for you to enter into a relationship with God, for your sins to be forgiven, and for God’s law to be written in your mind and heart. The New Covenant completes the redemptive story of God not only generally, for the whole world, but also individually, for you.

Thank God today for His pursuit of you, and determine to treat others with the same kind of grace you’ve received.

Lord God, Almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought me in safety to this new day: Preserve me with your mighty power, that I may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all I do, direct me to the fulfilling of your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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