10 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.
11 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.
12 They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven,
with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.
13 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.
With the changing of the year, this scripture is timely for me. Out with the old, and the looking toward the new.
As with previous years, at the changing of the old and new, God will speak to my heart as to what the topic of the year will be for me. What direction He and I will be walking together so that I can find all the blessings he has hidden for me in my personal adventure. This year is no different. This year as I look ahead and listen to the voice of the the one who guides my life, one direction is ringing loud and clear.... He desires truth in my inward parts.
Although I am not a dishonest person by any means, I know that there are things inside that need to be released. My God desires not only a life of truth to be lived by me, but a truth that runs to my very core.
I know that I am a people pleaser by nature... I am a fixer, a worrier, and I must admit a bit of a self inflicted, self driven martyr. These are the things that I must bring light and truth to.
I must release the old... the old way of doing things.
The way I react, the way I view things just because that is what was handed down to me and I myself have taken on.
I must instead turn to what has been written on my heart.
The personal love letter written to me by my personal God.
Letting go of the old and do just as God did
set it up on a shelf to gather dust.
