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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Jeremiah 31:27-40
Jeremiah does not announce only sad events. He also has good news for the people. "Behold, the days come," he says, when the LORD will re-establish the house of Israel and that of Judah by virtue of a new covenant. The previous one had been broken by the people. They had shown themselves to be incapable of living up to their obligations as laid down in the law. Now God is no longer going to give this law to His own on tables of stone. He will place it within them (so that they will be like the picture of the obedient Servant — Psalms 40:8). He is going to write it straight onto their regenerate hearts (v. 33; 2 Corinthians 3:3). In other words they will carry out the will of the LORD out of love and no longer out of fear. Is this not an even greater incentive for the children of God to obey their heavenly Father? Yes, let us allow Him to engrave on each of our hearts the teachings of His word.
"For they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them . . ." The Lord wants it to be so in each of our families.
Vv. 31-34 are quoted in Hebrews 8:10-12, finishing with the promise which concerns us as well: "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (cf. Acts 10:43). For the blood of the new covenant is also shed for us (Matthew 26:28).
