The Jesus Bible Reading Plan / OLD AND NEW COVENANTS

The Jesus Bible Reading Plan

Day 17 of 365 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. Joshua 8:30-35 NASB 30 Then Joshua built an altar to the L ord , the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, 31 just as Moses the servant of the L ord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the L ord , and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel. 33 All Israel with their elders and officers and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the L ord , the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the L ord had given command at first to bless the people of Israel. 34 Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them. 2 Corinthians 3:3 NASB 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.