“Covenant of the Heart”

Jeremiah 31: 33: “’But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it…’” Much attention is given in the New Testament to the Power/Anointing aspect of the Holy Spirit, but in the Old Testament there is a moral element that is as strong or stronger. In transferring the seat of Covenant from head to heart God is making it a matter of the Spirit, as the Letter of the law is superseded by the life-giving Spirit (2 Corinthians 4: 3).