“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… 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” Jeremiah 31: 31-33.
Overtime, it has been discovered that people’s life are driven by covenants. Some are driven by satanic covenants. To such people, the covenant becomes the driving force of their lives. In our meditation today, we shall insightfully look at the biblical provision of covenant as better channel of appropriating God’s graces and mercies.
Covenant, in a simple term, is just an agreement between two persons, or a political pact between two nations, having social and economic implications. In biblical term, covenant is used to express a relationship between a king and a vassal state, or an oath between a god and a king or his people.
In a covenant relationship between God and His people, a promise or commitment to obligation is usually made. In this case, God uses a familiar term to express a relationship with His people, so that in all the covenants He made with His people, He committed Himself to solemn promise.
In biblical arrangement, covenant is divided into two categories and this is in line with its dispensational application. Thus we have the old and new covenant. In any case, whether old or new, the value and the import of the covenant remain the same, but serve one purpose.
The idea of old and new covenant is just for us to know their dispensational settings and their contextual application, showing the time in which the covenant was relevant to a particular generation.
For instance, the first covenant was made with our father of old in the faith at Sinai. With the passage of time, this covenant became old in terms of its ritualistic expression, but still retains its spiritual value and usefulness in the life of believers. The covenant still provides basis for our relationship with God.
In the old covenant, people enjoyed the protection of His out-stretched arms.
Obviously, when a man’s life is situated in the covenant of God, He fights for such a man or woman or nation.
Conversely, when the people broke covenant with God (Hos.11:3-4), they fell out of His grace. A deliberate violation of God’s covenant portends danger to any society or individual Christian.
In a dispensational revelation of God, the Bible speaks about the “New Covenant” which is serviced and solemnised with the blood of Jesus. Verse 31 of our text speaks about the messianic age which figuratively depicts the present moment. When the Lord God Almighty will internalise His ordinances considered to be the strength of His Covenant in our hearts, it will no longer be an issue of external regulations, which means it will no longer be an issue of academics or paper work; rather, it shall be translated into the reality of human thought. The essence is that, wherever you are, your life will be effectively governed by the covenant.
In the new covenant, God deals with the individual Christian on the basis of His newness. In this new arrangement, one is better appreciated by God than before. Here He says, “I will be your God and you will be my people” (Jer. 7:23). You will no longer depend on anybody to teach you the deep mysteries of God. You will not be ignorant of His divine purpose for your life.
The spiritual significance of the new covenant is that it renders obsolete every other covenant that hitherto governed your life. For those who have mortgaged their lives to satanic cults, the way out is turning a new leaf to the new covenant symbolic of Jesus Christ.
Today, the God of better covenant is on course with a better offer for you. The betterment of your life in this season is predicated on your acceptance of this better covenant. If your life experiences must be better this year, such life must be driven by God’s “better covenant”.
In every sense, God’s better covenant provides you a better platform for success.
– Takes you to a better altar
– Offers better life
– Takes you to a better tomorrow
– Takes you to better offices in life
– Gives better interpretation of your life history
– Gives you better testimonies
– Make people tell better story of your life.
– Sets aside the law, and brings grace to you.
“For although the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” – Jn. 1: 17.
– By better covenant, natural laws are suspended for your sake, and things will begin to work by grace for you.
Everything is absolutely better, in His better covenant.
