"In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land," declares the Lord, "men will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the Lord.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made."
Jeremiah 3:16 NIV
The ark of the covenant of the Lord, the place where the ten commandments were kept, the ark upon which the atonement cover rested was an object of great importance to the Israelites. Jeremiah prophecises that the ark, at some time, would not be remembered or rebuilt.
Think about the covenant that we live under. Our covenant is the unconditional covenant written in Christ's blood; shed for our sin and his resurrection to overcome death and to bear all of our sin so that we are justified before God.
Draw a parallel between forgetting the ark of the covenant and forgetting the new covenant we live under. If one does not take time to "tell the story" to others, Jeremiah's prophecy might well apply to us today. The reason for direct application to us is that if we do not "tell the story" to our children, family, friends, acquaintances, and others, "the story" may not enter their minds and hence not be remembered or missed. It would be forgotten.
Certainly Christ's perfect, sufficient, substitutionary sacrifice is complete for our redemption and most certainly another one will not be made.
How does the above encourage you to, in love, tell the story?
Can you think of specific ways you could tell the story?
In Christ,
David P
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