“A new covenant.”

Jeremiah 31:31-34, “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

One of my friends with a prophetic gift told me years ago that we would be coming into a time when we as believers would have to step up to be true neighbors, to help our neighbors in difficult times, to be “salt and light” not only in speaking the good news of Jesus Christ, but to put hands, hearts and feet into His good news. We have this amazing treasure when we come to Christ and believe in Him that He puts within us by the power of the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. He lives within us and is always willing to help us, to teach us, to comfort us and to gift us freely with His fruit: “love, joy peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance against such there is no law!” Remember that John the Baptist said “I baptize you with water for repentance, ... He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill us today with Your fruit that we may blaze with Your fire and point the way to Jesus Christ in thought, word and deed!