Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 31-32.

Jeremiah had repeatedly prophesied that disaster would come upon Jerusalem and vehemently rejected as false prophets those who gave the people of Jerusalem cheery prophecies.  However, in today’s passage. Jeremiah does give a prophecy of hope.  He does not offer them a chance to avoid the disaster which he had previously prophesied, but he prophesies that the disaster will not be the end for the people of Israel.  God promised that He would call them back to Him.  He would establish a new covenant with His people.  Under His new covenant, people would be held accountable only for their own sins, not for the sins of their parents and other ancestors.  More importantly, God promised that He would put His law and instructions into the hearts and minds of those who turned to Him under this new covenant.  If we repent and seek God, He will directly teach us His laws and we will not need to rely on anyone else to know them, or to know Him.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.