Where I live, the roads tend to change.  Just when you feel like you’ve gotten used to taking a specific route, it ends up under construction, and you have to find a new way to get where you are going.  Some roads are deemed no longer necessary, and a new route is built in their place.

Now if the way you had been going each day was no longer valid and was being done away with, but you kept trying to use it anyway, that’d be considered foolish.  It no longer works to get you where you want to go.  This would be especially true if the new way being offered was better and made travel more accessible and effective than it was before.

In a way, this has transpired spiritually, yet many have yet to realize it.  Many still view things from an Old Covenant perspective and read their Bible through Old Covenant lenses, even though that way of thinking has been replaced with something new and better.

2Corinthians 3:4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.  7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.

Jesus has established a new and much better way for how we are to relate with God and receive from Him all that He has promised.

Hebrews 8:13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Hebrews 9:15 And for this reason He (Jesus) 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.

That which was written on stones ministered death, yet it was glorious in its own right in its own time.  But its glory began fading as quickly as it began.  The expectation was that one day the ministry of the Spirit would replace it by bringing a new way of being made righteous.  This new way would be better and bring with it ever-increasing glory.  This would be possible because a new covenant would be established to do away with and replace the old one.

Jesus has established a new and better way by establishing a New Covenant far superior to the old one given by Moses that had been in place for many generations.

To remain under that old way of thinking would be wrong now that a new way is established.  As good as the old may appear with all of its righteous demands, it cannot make anyone righteous and has been replaced.

A person will struggle to understand how complete a work Jesus has done if they embrace a mixture of the two covenants.  It can only bring confusion into their lives.  To enjoy the ever-increasing glory promised in the new covenant, we must be willing to make a clean break with the old and fully embrace the way of the new covenant as being the only way that remains.

Everything God has promised and offered is made possible only through the new covenant.  Jesus established this new covenant.  By shedding His blood, He authenticated it in heaven and on earth.  This new way is now the only way.  Jesus established something far greater than Moses ever could.  I want to live according to what Jesus established and be governed directly by the Holy Spirit.  There’s a far greater glory in that way of life than the one that calls me to put my trust in what I can do to deserve the promises of God and remain in His favor.  I am choosing to take my stand on the merits of Jesus and the righteousness He imparted to me, although I didn’t even deserve it.  I make my stand on the mercy I received through Christ.  I encourage you to do likewise.  It is the new way God relates to people; it is only through Jesus that we can know the Father and remain in His favor.  All other methods have been dismantled.  Let’s be found looking unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith.