Jer31:31

“The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
³²It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,”
declares the LORD.
³³“This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD.
“I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
³⁴No longer will anyone teach their sibling, or their neighbor,
saying, `Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD.

God longs for a day when he will be able to re-establish his kingdom on earth. A kingdom characterised by acceptance, respect, and reciprocity. Where the rules are no longer external, but internal, ‘written on people’s hearts’ and everyone, ‘from the least to the greatest’ (note the order), has access to power.
Generation after generation reject God’s agenda for love and justice. And generation after generation continue to construct political economies that enrich a powerful minority at the expense of the majority of the population.
Till, one day, God steps onto the stage of human history, in the person of Jesus Christ, to show us the way that we can live with love for justice once again. Jesus not only tells us about “the Way”; Jesus is “the Way” himself.
When the people try to make Jesus their king – he refuses, saying, he has not come “to be served”, but “to serve”, and to give his life as “a ransom” – the price he is willing to pay – to set the people free. He says that, while pagans may “lord it over” one another, it should “never be so among you”.