The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

September 13, 2015

Devotions:

        “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”  ‭Hebrews‬ ‭13:20-21‬ ‭KJV‬‬

        This blessing starts out appealing to the God of peace.  Peace in Hebrew is shalom and means more than calmness.  Shalom means wholeness, nothing lacking, nothing broken.  Our God is a God of wholeness and He desires us to walk in wholeness and complete.  

        “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:”

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭2:10‬ ‭KJV‬‬

        God accomplishes our wholeness through the power that raised Jesus for the dead.  Jesus is the great shepherd of the sheep.  He cares for us and gave His life for us.  Jesus is the Good Shepherd.  How are we made complete?  Through the blood of the everlasting covenant which our representative, Jesus the Good Shepherd, shed on our behalf when He cut the covenant with the Father for us.  It is an everlasting covenant so we are secure for eternity.  

        This blood of the everlasting covenant is what our Father works through to make us perfect towards HIm unto every good work that was prepared before hand that we should walk in them.  Because of the blood of the covenant we have been permanently cleansed of all of our sins and have been made the temple of the living God who is at work in us to both will and to do to His good pleasure.  It is Christ in us the hope of glory.  It is the tried, tested and proven life of Christ found to be without sin, in us that works that which is well pleasing in His sight.  We just need to get out of the way and look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.  We expect, look to  and yield to the greater one in us and we walk in victory over sin, sickness and disease and all the curse.  We have been redeemed! Oh how much He loves us.

        In this passage we see nothing of the responsibility of the believer just a proclamation of the work of God towards the believer.  It is God doing the work not us.  God just ask that we believe in Him and His work in us and for us and stay out of the way.