Across the Preacher’s Desk: Written In The Heart

June 2, 2022 - The writer of Hebrews in Hebrews 8:10 quotes a passage from the 31st chapter of Jeremiah where he writes, “I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts”. God is telling us there will come a time when his laws, his precepts, his commandments will not be written on tablets of stone, but it will be a law written in the heart.

God is telling us that the spirit of His laws, the spirit of living His kind of life will take hold of our hearts. It won’t be a legalistic kind of obedience but an obedience of love because we love God. There is a place in Matthew 15:8 where Jesus quotes Isaiah when he says, “this people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.” We surely don’t want that to be said of us.

Is there an application in this for those of us living in this present day and age? Why do we obey God’s commandments? Why do we live God’s kind of life? Do we live God’s kind of life out of a fear of going to hell? Do we live God’s kind of life because that is “what we are supposed to do”? Or, are we living God’s kind of life out of our love for God. Are we living God’s kind of life because of the love God showed for us in sending Jesus and we want to return that love.?

Where is God’s law written for us, for you and me today? Is God’s law written on our heart so that we live for God because we love Him? It should be.

It’s something to think about. . . tbp

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