“Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second. . . . . . . . . . . .”
Excerpt, First Reading, Friday 24th January 2025 – HEBREWS 8:6-13.
So, it is not that God does anything that has fault or that would later become faulty.
God is perfectly perfect. He is all powerful, all knowing and all present. He is also very tolerable.
It is as a result of such tolerance that he gave man the freewill to do as it most pleases him.
Hence, in our freedom and liberty, we violated and desecrated the covenant of peace and sustenance that He made with us.
Our faulty ways necessitated the new covenant mediated by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
This covenant wasn’t made on stone tablets and had to be read and passed on across generations like the old.
The new covenant is inspired into the hearts and minds of each of us. This new law brings the consciousness of God right within us.
A typical example of that consciousness is our conscience.
Therefore, those of us who harden our heart against any prickly conscience, we violate and desecrate the new covenant.
However, while desecration of the covenant by one affects all in the old law, in the new, it is each man for himself.
So, my dear friend, every man’s sins stand against them, just as their good bears witness for them. However, just as charity cancels our sins, our sins also cancel any previous good.
Folks, have a fantastic day and a pleasant weekend.
#FRANCIS_DE_SALES! #Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
-Akase F. Agabo
24th January 2025.