Jeremiah- “A New Covenant.” Jeremiah 31:31–32
It happened on a warm weekend day in a suburban part of Omaha. A man was pushing an empty wheel barrow down the middle of the street. When asked why, the answer brings to mind today’s hero of faith, the prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah is a bull in a china closet kind of prophet. He is called to the prophetic office before he is even born, consecrated by God before he was formed in his mother’s womb. Told by God when he protested that he was too young that he shouldn’t worry or be afraid because God was with him and then God says to Jeremiah; “Now I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Why did the man push the wheel barrow down the street? His answer, to collect the hurt, the misery, the sins of all. Jeremiah did not push a wheel barrow. He wore an oxen yoke on his shoulders and he spoke of a new covenant. “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant” Jeremiah 31:31. That covenant would break the yoke and empty the wheel barrow of hurt, misery and sin.
Question of the Week: What is a yoke?
Answer: A yoke is a wooden beamnormally used between a pair of oxen or other animals to enable them to pull together on a load when working in pairs, as oxen usually do; some yokes are fitted to individual animals.
