Scripture Union Daily Power – 12 August 2025 – Tuesday Daily Devotional Message
Read the Scripture Union Daily Power – 12 August 2025 Devotional for Teens. Discover today’s grace-filled message, Bible verse, and life-changing insight to strengthen your walk with God.
TOPIC: New Covenant with better promises
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Opening Prayer
P5: As I read this passage now Lord, help me to contact you and to know the exceeding greatness of your power to us who believe.
Memory Verse
Hebrews 8:12
Scripture Reading
Hebrews 8:1-13
1 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent[a] that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are already those[b] who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They offer worship in a sanctuary that is[c] a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one, just as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tent.[d] For, God[e] said, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6 But Jesus[f] has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on the basis of better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.
8 God[g] finds fault with them when he says:
“The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah,
9 not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors
on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
for they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I had no concern for them, says the Lord.
10 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach one another
or say to each other,[h] ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins[i] no more.”
13 In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.
Meditation Question
► What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
► Is there any promise for me to believe or hope for?
Read v.1 again and take note of the place from where our High Priest, Jesus Christ, is ministering to us. He sits at the right hand side of God’s majestic throne and ministers in the true tabernacle set up by God in heaven (Hebrews 8:2). The earthly tabernacle and its rituals were a copy from what was shown to Moses on the mountain (Hebrews 8:5). We now have the real pattern in the New Covenant with better promises for the worshippers.
What made God turn away from the Israelites according to Hebrews 8:9? According to this New Covenant, God wants to inscribe His laws on our mind and write them in our hearts so that He would be our God and we would be His chosen people (Hebrews 8:10-11). This gives every believer access to relate with God. What is God’s promise to us in Hebrews 8:12? Praise God for a New Covenant with better promises!
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, help me to walk in the reality of the New Covenant in Jesus’ name. Amen.
One Year Bible Reading Plan – Hard Copy version
Jeremiah 7-9.
