Young Adults' Group

A New Covenant Of Love

by Pastor Mark
December 19, 2014

My meditation this Christmas

Christmas is just around the corner. I’m delighted indeed this Christmas to be meditating on the everlasting love of God. It is a love that knows no bounds in terms of time or degree. It is a love that transcends all things yet so real and applicable to our church and to each one of us.  As I prepare my heart for Christmas, I have been encouraged meditating on the Lord’s love.

His love as seen in the New Covenant

No matter how many times we study the New Covenant, it always fascinates me to see how we can appreciate it from a deeper standpoint. After listening to what Pastor Charlie had to preach to us about the New Covenant last Sunday, I meditated on it further and was struck by the love that God reflected in the giving of this covenant.

It was truly a covenant of God’s everlasting love which was reflected in what He promised to do for Israel and Judah and for all of us through the Lord Jesus. God promised, “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 31:33) How would the Lord show His love? He would do so by putting His law in our mind. Lovingly, His law will strengthen our minds to face our challenges. He would also lovingly etch His Word on our hearts… to guard it securely. Also, we can have a loving relationship with the Lord, who is our God and we are His people. What a privilege! What a joy…that we would be able to relate to the Lord in this New Covenant of everlasting love.

The depth of knowing the Lord

In this New Covenant, we have every potential to know God. All of us can know God. It is not just having superficial knowledge. We can know God in a much deeper manner. The Lord declared further, “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.” From the least to the greatest, all of us can know God. ”(Jeremiah 31:34) God’s design through this New Covenant is that every single person can know God. We can know God and His love, which is reflected in how He would forgive us and remember our sins no more. Let us rejoice that we can know God in a deeper manner through this New Covenant.

The stability and certainty of the New Covenant

In all that God had promised, we can be assured that He will fulfil. We have a New Covenant that is stable and certain forever. He made this oath in comparison to the ordinance of the sun and the moon, “This is what the Lord says, He who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is His name: Only if these decrees vanish from My sight,” declares the Lord, “will Israel ever cease being a nation before Me.” (Jeremiah 31:35,36) The rising of the sun and the moon each day have been decreed by the Lord. As these ordinances continue to function, so will the Lord’s decree of His New Covenant. The New Covenant will be stable and firm…it will not be broken in any way. This New Covenant had been established through Christ and will continue to be a blessings to our mind and heart. Each time, I see a sunrise or the moon rising, I will be reminded of the certainty of the New Covenant of love. This Christmas, let us be renewed by the everlasting love of God that is seen in the Lord’s most certain promises to us, through His New Covenant as established by Christ.

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