Corelle Dinnerware & the New Covenant
Do some of you remember when Corelle Dinnerware first came out? I do. It was in the 1970’s and it quickly became highly sought after. My mom got some for the family and made the mistake of telling us that it was “unbreakable.” Well, actually mom might only have claimed that it was “break resistant,” but I did not always listen carefully to such subtle distinctions. I soon discovered that a Corelle plate dropped on a hard concrete floor was really very breakable.
God seems to imply that his “New Covenant” with his people (see Jeremiah 31:32) is unbreakable. Is that true? It would seem that we break the covenant all the time. That is, we Christians regularly break God’s law and fail to live faithful lives as God’s people. Yes, in Christ Jesus and by the power of the Spirit the law is in our minds and written on our hearts, but we don’t always live that way. Is all wickedness really forgiven and all sin really forgotten? Does everyone know the Lord? (see Jeremiah 31:34).
Corelle was called “new” dinnerware and the “unbreakable china.” Yet, just like the old china I managed to break it more than once. What about the new covenant? I wonder.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
That sounds like the “unsinkable” Titanic. I think any absolute claim, about dinnerware or anything else, is bound to fail eventually.
I think the new china and the old china are just regular china then…