My wife found my dog resting his adorable snout on the Bible, sniffing Jeremiah 31:31, where the prophet foretells the New Covenant between God and His people.
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
At the time of its writing, no one expected the means through which the new covenant would manifest, nor the mechanism of action to straighten the scoliosis of the soul. That God would take on flesh, fulfilling the law of God by dying a slave’s death, and inviting us, not by works, but by faith, into his victory and obedience, had not entered into the mind of man. No eye had seen, nor ear had heard of what the Lord had planned for those who feared Him.
Neither did the principalities of darkness understand it, else they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
In other words, the mystery of the new covenant was as indecipherable to this dog as it was to man and spirits, even though it was legibly written, read by the literate, and planned from before the creation of the world.
Thought Butter 