Jeremiah 31:33-34 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares 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. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
Let us never feel it a cliché to say that God offers us a “personal relationship” with him. As the verses cited above make clear, this “personal relationship” just happens to be the central aspect of our salvation- the diamond in the crown of our redemption. Let us rather marvel that so holy and transcendent a God would condescend so lovingly to bring such sinners as us into his fellowship. Let us each day- indeed, each moment of each day- cultivate our relationship with the Creator, blessing the blood of Christ by which our reconciliation with the Father was obtained. And let us, having drawn near to God ourselves, do all we can to draw others to him as well, that their joy and ours might be full.
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