Are You ready for a "Better than That" Day?
One translation of Hebrews 8:6 says, Now Yeshua the Messiah has
received the Ministry which is better than that, as The Covenant of which he is
made The Mediator is better, and is given with better promises than that!
There were powerful promises given to men and women in the Old
Covenant that brought the miraculous into people's lives for the Glory of God!
For instance, even though Moses was called by God to set His
people free, Moses got off on the wrong foot and found himself on the backside,
not just the desert, but the backside of the desert for 40 years because he was
trying to do things his way when God had a better way and plan for
accomplishing things. I am sure we can all identify with making some mistakes
along life’s way. If the Frank Sinatra song, "I did it my way" was
around then, I imagine Moses would have sung it, until he turned and did it
God's way which was a "better than that" way. God had a promised land
for His people and Moses was to be a part of getting them there. God has amazing blessings for you He has
planned that you experience too!
Another case in point: Paul in the New Testament said, I do not
consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own yet; but one thing
I do--it is my one aspiration: forgetting what lies behind and straining
forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and
heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. Philippians
3:13 Amplified
He did not say he forgot; he said I am making it a part of my
life to continue to forget those things that were in my past that are trying to
hinder my movement forward--He was saying, I believe, he wanted to experience a
"better than that" life for the glory of God instead of what his past
experiences were. This was the man that
wrote three-fourths of the New Testament!
When you as an individual experience the life, Jesus paid for you to
live, it brings much glory to the Father and to Jesus just like Paul was
writing about!
Because of what Jesus did, we, as born from above believers, have
been given promises, literally a New Covenant from God, that He desires us to
receive as a gift; promises that are like seeds when planted with our words and
beliefs that result in increase in our lives spiritually, physically and in our
soul. These promises are gift packages so to speak that must be opened to be
experienced.
I encourage you, as I wrote in my book, Detox: Spiritual
Cleansing for a Fulfilling Life, Chapter 5, to see the New Covenant promises
written in the Scriptures as "Priority Letters” written especially for you
and to you.....personalize them! Get as excited and interested in what is
written as you would be when you receive Priority Mail! Do a Detox in your
thinking which literally means to lift off, remove, just like Paul said, get
rid of negative thinking and concerns about yesterday's mistakes that maybe
resulted in losses so you that you are in a better position to move forward
into the "better than that" experiences the Lord has for you Now!
Remember to focus on the fact that His mercies, His graces, His
peace, which means " nothing missing, nothing broken" are new and
fresh every morning! He said it and
wants us to say: Yes, and Amen! 2 Corinthians 1:20 For no matter how many
promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so, through him
the "Amen" is SPOKEN BY US to the glory of God!
Begin to say in faith, Amen, which means So be It, in Jesus Name
because God is interested in you experiencing His best!
