August 3, 2023 - The Hebrew writer quotes a passage from Jeremiah chapter 31 in Hebrews 6:10. He writes, “I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts.” God is telling us there will come a day when his law will not be written on tablets of stone, but will be a law written in the heart.
God is talking about the spirit of His laws taking hold of our hearts. In the Old Testament, we often see people keeping the law of God without the law of God taking hold of their hearts. Jesus quotes Isaiah in Matthew 15:8 when he says, “This people honoreth me with their lips but their heart is far from me?
Is there a parallel or application for our day and time? Why do we obey God’s commandments? 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 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
