A better covenant

by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. – Hebrews 7v22

All through the Old Testament, under the ‘old covenant’ there was never a full assurance that everything was right. The priests were human, they were sinners, and they kept dying off. Nothing was permanent and nothing was really trustworthy in their minds.

That all changed with Jesus. With Jesus there is a perfect, unblemished, never ending High Priest of a whole new order. Because our High Priest is perfect and unblemished He offers us a hope and an assurance that the old covenant could not provide. Our perfect High Priest offers us a perfect hope that we are sealed once and for all.

What is the promise, surety, and guarantee of God’s new covenant with us? It is certainly not my own qualifications or my own works that make it sure. The covenant was sealed when I accepted His gift of salvation. Now Jesus and Jesus alone guarantees it.

Praise the Lord for my surety of the new and everlasting covenant!