The New Covenant Leads Us to Christ

In 2 Corinthians 3:4-6, Paul says that his confidence before God came through Christ and speaks of the new covenant, in which the Spirit gives life. This truth changes the way we understand our relationship with God.

In Luke 22:20, Jesus connects the cup with the new covenant in His blood. He was pointing to His own sacrifice. Our reconciliation with God rests on what Christ would accomplish at the cross.

This truth reaches a deep human tendency: trying to prove that we deserve acceptance. Faith can become an effort to make up for past failures, or we may live afraid that one mistake has made us unworthy of God’s love. The new covenant brings us back to what Jesus has already done.

Receiving this grace also changes the way we live. When we begin to understand the cost of reconciliation, obedience takes on a different meaning. We follow Christ because His love has reached us, and we want that love to shape our choices.

You may be carrying guilt over something you have already confessed or trying to earn God’s approval through your performance. Return to Christ. Remember where your confidence rests and allow the grace you have received to shape the way you walk with God.

4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;

6 ¶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, ‹This cup› [is] ‹the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.›