Good Things
Who doesn't like the promise of good things to come?
This is especially true when a person has been in a difficult situation or faced challenging times.
There's a promise of good things to come through a better High Priest.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
I love how the letter to the Hebrews uses words like 'greater,' 'better,' 'more perfect,' and 'more excellent.'
Here, we find that Good Things to Come is the ministry of the Priesthood of Jesus. After all, He is ministering in a greater tabernacle not made with hands. Think on that for just a moment. Not made with hands. Not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves.
What did He obtain with His own blood? Eternal redemption!
If the blood of animals sacrificed worked to purge the consciences of those they were offered on behalf of, and purified the flesh, how much more will the blood of Jesus.....?
What can the blood of Jesus do for our consciences? Cleanse them from dead works!
Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant, by His death, which was necessary to pay for the transgressions under the first covenant. Now we who are called receive the promise of the eternal inheritance! The new covenant is a covenant of good things!
Have you tapped into the good things of the new covenant? I trust you have and will continue to do so. There truly is nothing and no one better than Jesus and what He offers to those who are His.
