The Jesus Bible Reading PlanSample

OLD AND NEW COVENANTS

Joshua recounted the law of God given to Moses and established it as the ongoing standard response of God’s people to his grace as they entered the land. This law, written on tablets of stone, was a God-given gift of grace to provide former slaves with the keys to the blessing and freedom found in obedience to God.

Paul later said that something far more incredible happened through the gift of salvation. The law is no longer contained on tablets of stone — now it is written on the human heart (2Co 3:3). The transformation brought about by God’s saving grace should be demonstrated by those who claim to follow Jesus. This change is not the result of following an abstract set of external, moral principles but the working of the Spirit of God dwelling in the hearts of God’s people. God, through the work of salvation, takes out a person’s heart of stone and puts in its place a heart of flesh that pulsates with new life. On this new heart is written God’s law — a miracle far greater than the Law given at Mount Sinai.

Jesus, thank you for writing your truth on my heart. Please continue to transform me so I become more and more like you: good, pure and full of love. Amen.