Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Wednesday, 25 July 2018 "Shake It" by Tim Gates - Jeremiah 31:21-34.

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Wednesday, 25 July 2018 "Shake It" by Tim Gates - Jeremiah 31:21-34.
Jeremiah 31:20 (21) Set up road signs, erect guideposts,
pay attention to the highway,
the path on which you traveled.
Come back, virgin Isra’el,
come back to these cities of yours!
21 (22) How long will you hesitate,
you unruly daughter?
For Adonai has created something new on earth:
a woman with the strengths of a man.
22 (23) Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot,
the God of Isra’el, says:
“This expression will be used again
in the land of Y’hudah and its cities
after I have returned their exiles:
‘May Adonai bless you,
home of justice, holy mountain!’
23 (24) In it will live together
Y’hudah and all its cities,
the farmer and those who lead the flocks.
24 (25) For I have satisfied the weary
and filled the needs of all in distress.”
25 (26) At this point I woke up and looked around, but I had enjoyed my sleep.
26 (27) “Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, when I will sow the house of Isra’el and the house of Y’hudah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. 27 (28) At that time, just as I used to watch over them with the intent to uproot, break down, overthrow, destroy and do harm; so then I will watch over them to build and plant,” says Adonai. 28 (29) “When those days come they will no longer say,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
29 (30) Rather, each will die for his own sin;
every one who eats sour grapes,
his own teeth will be set on edge.
30 (31) “Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah. 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 Torahwithin 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.” (Complete Jewish Bible)

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Most of us played with an Etch-a-Sketch growing up. You could turn knobs, make boxes, or draw your name. You were limited by the boundaries on each side. If something ever went wrong with the drawing, you could simply shake it and the drawing was wiped clean. You could start over!
In Jeremiah 31 we are reminded that we are no longer living under the boundaries of the Law but under grace. 1 John 1:9says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” Through the new covenant we can be wiped clean from a life of sin and scars.
What is on your Etch-a-Sketch today? Maybe it is anger, rage, resentment, hurt, bitterness, betrayal, or unfaithfulness. Be reminded today that through the new covenant God is faithful and just and will forgive our sin when we confess. God will go further than that. Jeremiah 31:34 (CEV)says, “I will forgive their sins and forget the evil things they have done.” With God’s help, shake some things free in your life today and be reminded that we live under grace.
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Hymn for Today: "Glorious Freedom" by Haldor Lillenas.
1. Once I was bound by sin’s galling fetters,
Chained like a slave, I struggled in vain;
But I received a glorious freedom,
When Jesus broke my fetters in twain.
Refrain: Glorious freedom, wonderful freedom,
No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus the glorious Emancipator,
Now and forever He shall be mine.
2. Freedom from all the carnal affections,
Freedom from envy, hatred and strife;
Freedom from vain and worldly ambitions,
Freedom from all that saddened my life. 
Refrain: Glorious freedom, wonderful freedom,
No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus the glorious Emancipator,
Now and forever He shall be mine. 
3. Freedom from pride and all sinful follies,
Freedom from love and glitter of gold;
Freedom from evil, temper, and anger,
Glorious freedom, rapture untold. Refrain: Glorious freedom, wonderful freedom,
No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus the glorious Emancipator,
Now and forever He shall be mine. 
4. Freedom from fear with all of its torments,
Freedom from care with all of its pain;
Freedom in Christ, my blessed Redeemer,
He who has rent my fetters in twain. 
Refrain: Glorious freedom, wonderful freedom,
No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus the glorious Emancipator,
Now and forever He shall be mine. 
Thought for Today: For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace. (Romans 6:14)! (Complete Jewish Bible)).

Please pray: That many people in South Sudan will come to know Yeshua as their Messiah and receive the fullness of the Ruach HaKadosh.

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