It must be great to be known at a prophet of doom whose prophecies came true. Wonder of Robert Preston from the BBC self filfilling prophecy department on the Financial Crisis was a relation? Anyway Jeremiah seemed to get it a bout right with the exile and all the destruction that happened around Jerusalem. Not a happy place to be.
So does that mean his other prophecies come true as well? The part we read this week (moving on from the psalms, notice) is about God writing a new covenant with humanity. The old ones were written on stone or in the sky and relied mainly on God keeping one side and us not keeping ours. This new one is going to be written on hearts which in my mind makes me think that this covenant is different. Now it becomes the natural or intuitive way to live. God's law is parg of our being, our cnscience, our make-up. Justice and peace is part of what it means to be human. Righteousness and grace is the heartbeat of living. And whenever we live with even a hint towards these things we live within the covenant.
God's getting a bit dangerous, don't you think, making us into the promise keepers? It's nice to know someone trusts us, or perhaps expects us to fail but unlike prophets of doom, with this one grace is not index linked.
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