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Daily Devotional

“Thy Word is a lamp unto our feet.”

 

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Today’s Scripture Reading:

But Jesus' priestly work far surpasses what these other priests do, since he's working from a far better plan. If the first plan—the old covenant—had worked out, a second wouldn't have been needed. But we know the first was found wanting, because God said,

Heads up! The days are coming when I'll set up a new plan for dealing with Israel and Judah. I'll throw out the old plan I set up with their ancestors when I led them by the hand out of Egypt. They didn't keep their part of the bargain, so I looked away and let it go. This new plan I'm making with Israel isn't going to be written on paper, isn't going to be chiseled in stone; This time I'm writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts. I'll be their God, they'll be my people. They won't go to school to learn about me, or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons. They'll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.

 

By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and his people, God put the old plan on the shelf. And there it stays, gathering dust.  Hebrews 8:6-13 (Message Bible)

There is a great fascination with humans wanting not just to be God but to control God.   Even some of the books in the Christian bookstore seem geared more towards controlling God than inspiring our faith-journey.   And there are books that teach about God.  But knowing about God is not the same thing as knowing God, having a personal relationship with God, being on a first-name basis with God.  Today’s passage says God will carve it into the lining of our hearts. We won’t go to school to learn about God, or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons.  We’ll get to know God firsthand.   Do you know about God?  Or do you know God intimately in the way that God knows you? Amen!

 

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