Jeremiah
23:23-24 (GNT)
In this
passage God is speaking to His people through Jeremiah and letting His people
know that He hasn’t abandoned them even though there have been false prophets
in the camp prophesying things that God has not said.
It is a common
tendency for us to look to the professionally trained pastor, teacher, or
prophet to lead us when we are in need of direction or guidance regarding our
spiritual life. It is that tendency to fall
back to wanting to live a biblical life by the book, rather than living a Christ
Centered life being led by the spirit listening for Jesus speaking to us. Jesus came so that we could be set free “It is for
freedom that Christ has set us free...” Galatians 5:1
It is recognizing that being led by the
spirit is what has been intended all along, not trusting another man’s vision
or training to lead us.
Jeremiah saw
this clearly and prophesied about it in chapter 31:31-34
The Lord
says, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant with the people of
Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the old covenant that
I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of
Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant. The
new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will
put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and
they will be my people. None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the
Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive
their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have
spoken.”
Notice that the
result of the New Covenant would be that God’s people would not turn to
teachers for wisdom about God because “I will put my law within them and write
it on their hearts” and “because they will all know me, from the least to the
greatest” says the Lord.
It probably sounded like craziness to the Israelites, but it shouldn’t sound crazy now to us who are being saved, seeing
what provision God has provided us through the death of Jesus on the cross.
This New Covenant is now in place and we are
heirs to that promise. We are not called
to lives based on biblical knowledge alone, we are called to live lives which
are in Christ, being centered and led by the Holy Spirit and what God has written in our hearts.
God the
Father loves us so much that he would rather die than be separated from us, He
proved that through His son Jesus. We
have such good news that we are loved by the Father and that Christ now lives inside of us. Christ will teach us about everything that we need to know regarding the love of the
Father that we may personally encounter and relate intimately with Him,
just ask Him. (ref: 1 John 2:27)
For further reading, read the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32. Jesus told this story as an example of the outpouring love of the Father, never condemning but always desiring a close relationship with His children. The Father will never cut you off or disown you, no matter what you have done. His only desire is to know His children and to receive them back into a close personal relationship with Himself and His family.
just ask Him. (ref: 1 John 2:27)
For further reading, read the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32. Jesus told this story as an example of the outpouring love of the Father, never condemning but always desiring a close relationship with His children. The Father will never cut you off or disown you, no matter what you have done. His only desire is to know His children and to receive them back into a close personal relationship with Himself and His family.
Be Blessed;
Stephen
Barnett
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