As we read the Scriptures it becomes obvious that God is a covenant making as well as a covenant keeping God.  I think that there are times when covenants confuse almost everyone, except God.  But should they really.  Just like the advice given when signing a contract entered into with another human; you certainly will want and you really will need to  understand the terms of God’s covenant/covenants with you.  They are said to not all be alike.  We are told that some are to be unconditional and others conditional.  They are given at different times with differing purposes.  Are you included in any of those covenants?  

The last Covenant that is offered, I believe is purposefully called by God the “New Covenant”.  But Why?  The title “New” is confirmed by Jesus at the time of the Last Supper, and again it is confirmed by the writer of Hebrews.  Both, then at that time, called it “New”.  But the New is not now new.  It’s now 2000 years old, so why call it new when God knew fully well that it will be at least 2000 years in the offering of it.  And then, we consider that it is the last as well as the newest of His covenants with man.  At least that is true of His Covenants with this human race.  So, why not call it the Last Covenant?  Possibly because it is still new, for anyone who enters into it with Him.  Some say that it is unconditional, but should they or anyone else fail to enter into it, they then will certainly meet with its exclusions.  God offers the Covenant to everyone, and failure to act upon it subjects one to its exclusions by default.  Exclusions are an important part of the conditions to any contract.  

People fail to see the difference between the love that it took which was unconditional, and the covenant itself, which that love purchased, and which contains both conditions as well as exclusions.  The price required by God for our entrance into this New Covenant was paid with God’s unconditional love, both that of the Father and that of the Son.  And it is the same loving convicting power of the Holy Spirit that calls us to the terms of the Covenant.  We are wooed and convicted by Him to repent of the pain that we caused Him in the sufferings for our sin. Asking us to believe that His suffering was sufficient to ransom us from the penalty that God requires of us; and finally to accept the offer of forgiveness that He makes, trusting Him with our lives from now on and even throughout eternity.  

You see a Covenant has an offerer and an acceptor.  There was nothing free about providing us with this New Covenant.  God has paid an awfully great and for us very dreadful price in order that we may enter into this Covenant with Him.  In fact, wouldn’t a person be a fool to reject their part in this already paid for covenantal relationship with God?

Why is that, we ask?  Is it because God offered His perfect life’s blood (the only payment) that could replace and fully forgive the debt that each of us owe.  

In this life we weep over the loss of a friend or loved one because of their death.  Contrast that with: entering into this Covenant which carries with it the guarantee that we will be reunited in life with every member of the New Covenant for eternity.  Once one has digested its meaning it might just become natural that we will want all that we know and love to join with us in Christ’s offer of a Covenant that will forever be the New Covenant.