Established on Better Promises

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Here is today's communion meditation.

In Hebrews 7 it says that we have a high priest in Jesus who meets our need. He is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens and we have the amazing gift in the new covenant of being in him. 

Then in Hebrews 8 it says the following..."But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs(the old covenant) as the the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is established on better promises. The problem with the Old Covenant was that the people couldn't remain faithful to it and when they slipped up the punishment was severe...possibly whipped or stoned to death. 

But the New Covenant is different. God took us out of the way and made it all about Jesus rather than us. He also put everything we need within us including the power to live rightly. And God had this to say in Hebrews 8...

This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. (Everybody has been given the opportunity to be part of this New Covenant.) 
I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
11 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.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

Communion is a reminder that because of Jesus we have this amazing New Covenant that is established on better promises. To be established means to be permanently set in place. We can be God's people, his treasured possession.