"The God Pause Daily Devotional" from The Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States for Monday, 24 October 2016 with Scripture with Scripture Jeremiah 31:31-34

"The God Pause Daily Devotional" from The Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States for Monday, 24 October 2016 with Scripture with Scripture Jeremiah 31:31-34
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Jeremiah 31:31 (32) It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them,” says Adonai. 32 (33) “For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says Adonai: “I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 33 (34) No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai’; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.”
34 (35) This is what Adonai says,
who gives the sun as light for the day,
who ordained the laws for the moon and stars
to provide light for the night,
who stirs up the sea until its waves roar —
Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name:[Complete Jewish Bible]
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"They shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD." What a promise the LORD makes to all the sons and daughters of Abraham and Sarah! In these last days this promise has come to embrace all humankind, for are not all "one in Christ Jesus"? Sweet words are many in Scripture, but perhaps sweetest is "all:" "Come to me, all you who labor." "God has imprisoned all in disobedience that he may be merciful to all." "I will draw all people to myself." "I make all things new."
Yet--how shall we all know the LORD? It is by coming face-to-face with God's own word made flesh, Christ Jesus, through the means of grace. Surely, we long to know about God, but only because we have come to know him in his grace, mercy, love and presence. And strangely, even as in Christ we know our God, in Christ we know ourselves as we all shall be. 
Heavenly father, pour out your Holy Spirit on the whole creation, so that all people may repent and believe the Gospel. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Bradley Edin, '84
Pastor, Kathryn-Nome-Fingal Lutheran Parish, Fingal, N.D.
Jeremiah 31:31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt--a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the Lord," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.[New Revised Standard Version]

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