Written on the Heart
17 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, 2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills, 3 on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. 4 You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”
Jeremiah 17:1-4
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Written on the Heart
Jeremiah speaks of sin not as a mistake lightly brushed aside, but as something engraved, cut deep into the heart like words carved in stone. Judah’s idolatry had become second nature, passed from one generation to the next, so that even their worship was corrupted. What is written on the heart shapes the life. We know this truth too well. Sin is not merely around us; it clings within us. Left to ourselves, we would only continue in rebellion, storing up judgment and exile from God’s presence. The wages of sin are real. Yet Christ came to bear what was written against us. At the cross, the record of our guilt was laid upon Him. His pierced hands erase what our sinful hearts could not. In Holy Baptism, the Lord writes a new name upon us: forgiven, redeemed, His own. In Christ, judgment gives way to mercy.
Jeremiah 17:1-4
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Written on the Heart
Jeremiah speaks of sin not as a mistake lightly brushed aside, but as something engraved, cut deep into the heart like words carved in stone. Judah’s idolatry had become second nature, passed from one generation to the next, so that even their worship was corrupted. What is written on the heart shapes the life. We know this truth too well. Sin is not merely around us; it clings within us. Left to ourselves, we would only continue in rebellion, storing up judgment and exile from God’s presence. The wages of sin are real. Yet Christ came to bear what was written against us. At the cross, the record of our guilt was laid upon Him. His pierced hands erase what our sinful hearts could not. In Holy Baptism, the Lord writes a new name upon us: forgiven, redeemed, His own. In Christ, judgment gives way to mercy.
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