Here in Jeremiah 31 we have an important prediction that you should highlight and remember. It is the prediction of the New Covenant that was ushered in by Jesus Christ. The prediction is important because it helps us to see what is ‘new’ about the New Covenant: “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbour, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest,” (vss. 33-34). Jeremiah is looking forward to the time when, as God says through Ezekiel: “I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws” (Ezekiel 36:27). There were notable people in Old Testament times who lived by the Spirit: various high priests, kings (most notably David) and the prophets for example. The promise here is that all God’s people, from the least to the greatest, will be filled with the Spirit and will be enabled by the Spirit, not only to live out God’s will, but to know God, as it were, from the inside. This is a blessing that is available to us now. It is by the Spirit that we are first regenerated and enabled to respond to God. However, there is a sense in which we must grow in the Spirit. We must seek an ever-greater indwelling of the Spirit. As we become more surrendered to God, his Spirit reigns more and more in our lives.
Ask God to fill you with his Spirit.
Read Jeremiah 31:23-40
