First Presbyterian Church Of Baton Rouge

These are huge promises! A new covenant that creates a new heart. The re-establishing of the bond of “I will be your God and you will be my people.” The joy of being in right relationship with God and one another. Back in the harmony always intended.

God will dwell with us. This is the news that the triune God created us to be in communion with himself. And though that communion got severed by human sin, God yet refuses to be alone without us. He declines to just let us go and leave us to our own devices. He has determined in his superabounding love to restore our fellowship, renew the world and dwell forever in relationship with us. We have, in this present time, in this very moment, opportunity to participate in that re-connection with the one true God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

There’s deep mystery in the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Exactly how this works is beyond my ability to explain. Jesus makes an exchange with us. He takes our rage and returns his gentle love. He takes our crippling anxiety and gives us his peace. He takes our sin-stained, sticky guilt and washes us clean in his blood. He takes all our dying and begins eternal life in us by his Spirit. He invites us to show him our scars and still-open, infected wounds. The Lamb of God wants us to offer up our sin for his forgiveness. To give him our lives and let him pour his life back into us.