"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah ... this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."
God uses very few words. He said "Let there be light," and look what happened (thanks to Charles Haun). Like Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, God here expresses Himself succinctly and perfectly with a modicum of words.
Under the New Covenant, foreseen hundreds of years in the future by Jeremiah, the law will be written on fleshy tables of the heart, no longer on tablets of stone. God is writing in our hearts in these days to establish His laws within us that we might be the people He desires.
Adherence to this law will not be conformity to an external standard as in Old Testament legalism (and much of modern day legalism, for that matter), not a list of "to do's" and "don't do's," but "I delight to do Thy will, O Lord."
Lord, here's my heart. Write your law there with the pen of your Holy Spirit, even with the finger of God, that I might be pleasing unto Thee.
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