A covenant is an agreement or contract. If we remember, there was the Old Covenant, and there is the New Covenant with God. Both of these covenants were agreements or contracts between God and his people. With a contract, it is typically written down to serve as a reminder of the agreed upon terms and conditions.
“33But 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.” – Jeremiah 31:33 (ESV)
The New Covenant will be written down, only written on the hearts of God’s people (reminder of the agreed upon terms and conditions). Notice the words used “my people”. It is important to know that the law will be written for God’s people. How will we know God’s people, well that is between God and them. Once a Christian, you have become God’s people and the New Covenant will be within you and are now God’s people.
“34And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more.” – Jeremiah 31:34 (ESV)
We will no longer be called on to teach our Christian brethren to “Know” God, for they already do. And they should not be teaching us to “Know” God for we already do. We should be focusing our attention to others.
God will write on our hearts his New Covenant. We will know God on our heart and the New Covenant is alive in us.
Are you looking inward to the contract/agreement we have with God? Is God’s Law written on your heart? Do you know the Lord on you heart?
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