"But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
Jeremiah 31:33-34
This is talking about something that is at least starting to happen now in the last days: the new covenant. God offers us his law written in our hearts, and asks us to come to him and become his people. He wants to welcome us back and embrace us as in the story of the prodigal son. He forgives us and asks us to return.
As we turn to him, he will teach us of his ways and help us grow closer to him. No mortal can convince us or give us that solid, internal, lasting testimony of the truth, but God can. We support and help each other (and should continue to do so), but the real transformation of belief and conversion... that only comes from God. And apparently, perhaps when we get to the Millenial day, there will be no need to teach each other that basic knowledge of the Lord at all, because God will be written so indelibly in our hearts and we won't so easily forget.
Let's work towards that today, stuffing our hearts full of the word of God and internalizing his law and a constant prayer connection to him so that the first thing we think of when something goes wrong... or right, is Him, for help, strength, thanks, praise, and everything else. He loves us more than we can imagine. Let's return that love, and go forward with Him, always.
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