God of the Journey, bless and protect this dear reader in whatever needs they may face; in Christ Jesus I pray, amen.
Our text for today is from Jeremiah 31: 31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the Lord," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. (The Message)
"No seas Jeremias (Don't be Jeremiah)!" my mom would tell me or my siblings every time we cried. Little did I know what that meant at the time and I didn't know and she probably didn't either, that she was preparing me for ministry. When in some class we studied formally the prophet and the professor said, "He was the 'Weeping Prophet', I said to myself, "Oh! Now I know Mom!" The prophet's love for God and his country made him weep when he saw the way Israel was rejecting God. He saw the covenant between God and Israel much like a marriage covenant and Israel was playing the unfaithful wife. It is also said that Jeremiah did not enjoy his role as spokesperson for God especially to a people that did not seem to care. So, imagine the power behind today's message. It is a call to hope for a hopeless people. God has not even forgotten the acts done against God and the day is promised when everyone will know the Lord and there will be no more sin remembered against them.
This journey is part of that fulfillment of prophecy. Through Jesus Christ we have the New Covenant. Through Jesus Christ we have the forgiveness of sins, for He was the Lamb of God. Through Jesus Christ we are moving to let all people know that the can also know the Lord. And that the Lord stands ready for forgive all sins. All of them. Even mine. Even yours. What better hope can we possible have or seek?
PRAYER: Loving God, we celebrate this time of hope. Move among us and touch and transform us. Help us reclaim the Covenant you have shared with us and let us move to tell others. We pray in the precious and powerful name of Jesus our Lord, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
