Today's encouragement comes from 2 Corinthians 3:6a, where we read these words:
" . . . [God] also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant . . . “It is intriguing, that the New Covenant church ministers look a lot different from the Old Covenant church ministers. In the old order, only Hebrews could attend at the altar, and these were from one tribe (Levi). In the new order, God calls His ministers from all kinds of people groups, ethnicities, and races.
How can we ordinary people be made "sufficient as ministers of the new cov-enant"? Only through the perfected and more abundant grace of God in the New Covenant age, whereby God pours-out His Spirit without measure through our Risen and Ascended God/Man Lord Jesus Christ. May all the re-deemed church—clergy and laity—be filled with the joy of ministering gospel life in our Messiah today.
[Puritan quote of the day: "As God has two places He dwells in, heaven and a humble heart; so the devil has two places he dwells in, hell and a hard heart.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Doctrine of Repentance"]
