Today's Reading:
Job 28:1-30:31
Hebrews 8:1-13
Psalm 126:1-6
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Focus Verses: Hebrews 8:10-12
10 This
is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,
declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on
their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No
longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying,
'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them
to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
Insight:
External
laws are not able to transform the heart and mind that opposes and
resists them. Because God desires to forgive our sins, make us his
people, and be our God, he declares that he will put his laws in our
minds and write them on our hearts. Instead of doing good things to
become God's people, God will make us his people in order to help us do
good things. This is the covenant he makes with all who place faith in
Christ Jesus.
Response and Action:
I
need to surrender my heart and mind to God. I should expect him to
change me and guide me. I must meditate on the Scriptures and
prayerfully ask God to help me apply them to my daily life. I can't
settle for a "behavior modification" approach to following Christ; I
need my heart and mind to be changed so that Christ-like behavior will
flow out from what I am in Jesus.
O
God, you are my rock and my salvation. Forgive my wickedness and forget
my sins. Save me from the inside out. Heal and transform my heart and
mind. Be my God, and make me one of your people. Make me new by the
power of your Holy Spirit. Amen.
Spiritual Formation Verses: 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And
we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being
transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes
from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Resources:
Renovation of the Heart
by Dallas Willard
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