A NEW COVENANT

God is a God of covenant. That word covenant is a basic term that describes God’s relationship with his people. God takes the initiate of entering into relationship with his people, but God expects human beings to respond to that initiative. Every generation of God’s people had to respond to it. The covenant had its obligations and blessings, at a tie, the people of Israel began to ignore the obligation of the covenant. God was always faithful, but they weren’t. It was then that God made another provision of a better covenant. It would not be like the old one. It was going to be a new covenant. it would be fulfilled in the passion, death and resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ. Jesus says lifting up the cup of wine “This is the blood of the new and eternal covenant.” St Paul acknowledges, “God has made up competent to be ministers of the new covenant, not of letter but of spirit”(2 cor 3:6). And Hebrews 9:15 says,” for this reason he (Jesus) is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeemed them from the transgression under the first covenant. “The center of this new covenant is Jesus Christ.

Jesus had freed us from sin through his passion, death and resurrection. He is the perfect image of the father. He has shown us the way to the father. He has opened the gate of heaven for us. Possession of heaven is the target of this new covenant. The new covenant brings us in contact with the Holy Spirit. Everyone who is baptized has already entered into the covenant. The obligation of this covenant is to trust in God. He gives us the grace to fulfill the covenant.