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

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

Jeremiah tells us that God will make a new covenant with Israel because the people of Israel had demonstrated that humans were not capable of following God’s original covenant.  So, God promised through Jeremiah to create a new covenant, one which I believe was created by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Under the new covenant, God put His Spirit within us to give us God’s instructions and write them upon our hearts.  I believe that under this new covenant we do not need teachers in order to learn what God wants us to do.  Nevertheless, God has provided us with teachers to help us master His will.  A key part of what Jeremiah says here about not needing teachers is that there are no secrets which only the “select” can know: all of God’s truth is freely available to all who wish to know.

On another lesson of importance for us, despite prophesying the fall of Jerusalem, Jeremiah also prophesied its restoration.  But Jeremiah did not just say that these future good things would happen, he acted upon them.  When given the opportunity, Jeremiah bought land outside of the city.  However, he made it clear that he did not expect to make any gain from it in the short-term by putting the deed in a clay jar to preserve it for a long time.  Jeremiah had faith that the deed would someday be worth something and acted on that faith.