The word of life comes to discern the work of God in our midst so our hearts can be filled with the knowing God is with us to be the God we need.  

Heb 8:7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Heb 8:8  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.  God wanted to care for their lives.  He wanted to serve them with His rest but they didn’t walk in His works they walked in their own works.  
Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.  
Heb 8:12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.   All shall hear of the lamb I provided to take away their death.  

When the author of Hebrews says God will put His laws into our minds, and write them in our hearts, they are drawing a contrast with something from the book of Deuteronomy, which happens to be called the book of the law, or the words of the law, or the sayings of the law.  And they are showing how the thing God was desiring back in the old covenant is realized through Jesus.  

Deu 11:18  Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

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God wants to serve people with His life.  He’s looking far and He’s looking wide for people who will let Him serve them with His life.   As Jesus says in the book of Acts it is more blessed to give than to receive.  GOD’s busy wanting to give all of Himself to people, free from what they can do for him.  

If we look at the Hebrews, God saw the Hebrews when they were in bondage to pharoah and His heart was filled with love for them.  He saw the hard labor they were burdened with by the hand of pharoah.  He sat with a desire to be their God.  He wanted to care for them.  He saw they were in need of salvation and life, and He wanted to be their God, so they could live as a people whose lives were Fathered by His hand.  He wanted to hedge them about with His life.  He wanted them to reap where He had sown.  He wanted them to be able to live all their days enjoying the fruit of His work, living in a land He provided for them, living in the houses He built for them, and reaping the fruit of the vineyards He planted for them.  He wanted them to be able to enjoy the rest that comes from walking in His work.  If we put new convenant language to it, He wanted the hebrews to be able to live as little children, not needing to take thought for their own lives.  

So He says the way I can be their God, and the way they will be able to live as my people, enjoying the fruit of my labors, is if I can teach them that I am their sufficiency for life.  If I can show them the strength in my life, and the mercy in my hand, then they will live all their days knowing their provision for life is contained in the works of my hands and not the works of their own hands, and death won’t be able to come near them, and they shall never perish from off the land.  

You see there needed to be a circumcision of these hebrews hearts.  They came from a world; they came from a life where their own works, and the strength in their own hand, was their food for life.  And they needed to be able to discern the strength in God’s hand.  

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

When God gave Deuteronomy to Moses the idea was that these words can persuade the people I am their God.  God tells Moses to have the people put these words; the words of this law on their arm so they can be reminded all the time that I am the God they need.  

When God came and grabbed the hebrews by the hand and led them out of Egypt they had very specific needs.  They needed to be delivered from the bondage of the Egyptians, they needed a land to dwell in; they needed to be hedged about from that which sought to harm their lives; they needed food and water.  God was exceedingly abundantly above all they asked or needed.  God has Moses tell the people to bind the words of the works He did to feed them with life.  He has Moses tell the people to bind the words of the work He did to come and take them by the hand and lead them out of Egypt, when He caused death to pass over them, and He parted the Red Sea, and fed them with manna from Heaven, and brought forth water out of the rock, and He led them by fire at night, and a cloud by the day.  He has Moses tell the people to bind those words on their arm … so the strength in His hand would be always before their eyes, and their hearts could be kept from looking to the strength in their own hand.  And they could inherit the land and the life He promised them, and live all their days in the rest that comes from His work.

In order to be God or to be called the God of a people, you must meet certain qualifications ….. You must be able to take the care of the people’s lives completely onto yourself, free from the works of the people, and what they can do for you.  To the degree that if the people are in need of faith, you come and do a work to provide them with the faith they need.  

You must be intimately acquainted with the people, with their thoughts, with their feelings, with their hurts, and their weaknesses, and desires.  If you want to qualify as God you need to be intimately acquainted with what is needed for the people to have life.  You must possess the ability to serve the people what is needed for them to be filled with peace and love and joy.  And you must be able to do that free from their works.  

You cannot be someone’s God if you are requiring sacrifices and offerings from the people in order to care for them.  Should there be a sacrifice or an offering that is needed to care for the peoples lives, you would need to be the one who provides the sacrifice.  Someone might say werent there sacrifices and offering in the old covenant.  Yes, and they were all about the lamb God would provide.  As the scripture says sacrifices and offerings you didn’t desire but a body you prepared for me, speaking of Jesus as Gods lamb.  

Mankind is the kind of people who need to be persuaded God is with them to be the God they need.  It’s like an interview process that goes on in the hearts of people.  

When I worked at the finance company I did a lot of hiring so I was always interviewing people to see if they were qualified for the position I was trying to fill.  There was an entire process.  We had them fill out a skills test.  They had to go through interviews.  

Our hearts are conducting an interview process.  Our hearts are examining God to see if He can be our God.  Our hearts are looking over God’s qualifications to see if He possesses the ability to give our lives the kind of care we need.  We’ll struggle to give ourselves over into Gods  arms, and commit the care of our lives into His hands, unless we can be persuaded He has the ability that is needed to be our God.  

God knows this about the human heart.  He is the one who created our hearts.  He is happy to apply to our hearts to fill the position of our God.  He is gentle and He is meek and He enjoys the process of convincing us that He is more than qualified for the position of God in our lives.  Its not grievous for Him to win your heart over.  

Human beings were made for a specific kind of life, so we require a specific kind of care.  We found ourselves in the place where we were perishing.  We were living in a world where death is reigning, and death is reigning over us.  Our hearts were filled with fear because of the death that surrounded us, and that left us in captivity to hard labour, just as the hebrews were in bondage to the Egyptians.  We were in need of a life that could overcome death in our flesh, and raise us up a body that is completely free from death, never to be able to be corrupted by sin again.  We were in need of the kind of life that can separate death from the earth and all of creation, and then remove that death as far as the east is from the west, to the degree that death is no more, and is completely removed from our memory.  

God wants more than anything to be your God.  You can easily say He ever lives to care for you and to serve you with His life.  God sees that He has within Himself a life that can provide us with the peace and the love and the joy our hearts desire.  He sees these people, My people, they are needing to be cleansed from the death that found an opportunity to manifest in their flesh because of sin.  They are needing the accusation of the evil one to be cast out; they are needing their hearts to be filled with faith towards me.  They are needing to see I can only be good to them so they will come to me.  I will provide myself a lamb to take away the death sin is punishing them with, and they will see the thoughts in my heart towards them is to reward them with an indestructible life and they will see that I am with them to be their God … they will see that I will care for their lives exceedingly abundantly above all that they ask or think, and they will cast their cares upon me and commit the caring of their life into my hands and my grace.

God is wanting to Father His life in you.  God is wanting you to see Him as the one who will Father your life because He’s wanting you to be able to live as little children.  So what He does is He comes and shows you the thought He’s taken to care for your life in Jesus.  He knows if your heart can be persuaded the work needed for you to be sanctified from death is finished by the power of His lamb.  He knows if you can be persuaded that He has clothed upon you with the life of His lamb.  Then your hearts will be circumcised from looking to the strength in your own hands, and the strength in the world for life.  

I will put my laws in their minds and write them in their hearts.  

The laws GOD puts in our minds and writes in our hearts isnt thou shalts and thou shalt nots.  The word laws means teaching and instruction.  And what is it that God is wanting to teach us?  Hebrews 8 tells us that the teaching and instruction of God is about God persuading us that He is our God.  The teaching and instruction of God is about God revealing Himself to us as Father, as the one who will Father His life in us free from our works, so we can live as little children.  I mean Jesus says unless you become as little children you shall not partake in the kingdom of heaven.  The laws God puts in our minds, and writes in our hearts is all about God showing mankind the thought He has taken to care for our lives so we are able to live as little children, no longer living with the cares that come along with a life that is perishable; no longer living with the burdens that come along with trying to suck peace and love and joy out of this world, and a life that is corruptible. 

It’s the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus that God puts in our minds and writes in our hearts.  He writes in our hearts that He is with us to condemn the death that is condemning us, and to cloth us in the body of His life.  God put the words of what He’s done in Christ in our minds and in our hearts by pouring out the Holy Spirit.  I mean the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth, and Jesus says the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth because the Spirit guides you into everything that Jesus revealed about the goodness in Gods heart to serve sinners with His life.

If we interpret Hebrews 8 properly, God is saying I will write on their hearts the teaching and instruction that will cause them to see me as their God.  I will put in their minds the words of My Work to set them apart from death unto life.  I will write on their hearts the words of the lamb I provided to cleanse them from death.  And the words of the lamb I provided to sanctify them from death will be as a two edged sword.  Discerning the thoughts and intents of their hearts.  Circumcising from their hearts their own works and putting their flesh to rest.  

God writes the words of what He’s done to sanctify you from death on your hearts because your life is precious to Him.  He doesnt want you to have to sow your own strength to try and reap the fruit of His life.  He wants you to be able to reap peace and love and joy where He sowed His strength.  God is desiring for your life to be born from His work and not your own works.  He’s wanting for you to be able to live as little children, where your conscience has been purged from the death that’s in the world, and you aren’t living carrying the burdens that come from caring for a life that is perishable.   God is desiring to for you to know Him as Father, so you are able to live as little children.