5/21/14

From Gary... A different kind of "signing"


Signed copy? Autographed? Well, not since the ten commandments were given to Moses on mount Sinai has there been a signed copy. These things brought a flood of verses to mind, but here are a select few...

Exodus, Chapter 31
Exo 31:18  When He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God. 

Jeremiah, Chapter 31
Jer 31:31  "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
Jer 31:32  not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.
Jer 31:33  "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Jer 31:34  "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

2 Corinthians, Chapter 3
2Co 3:1  Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
2Co 3:2  You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
2Co 3:3  being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Rules and regulations are good things; without them our society would degenerate into anarchy. But, the problem with laws is that it is human nature to want to S-T-R-E-T-C-H or even BREAK them. What is needed is an understanding of the author, in order to get the spirit of the desire of God. In a sense, every Christian is a living Bible, having the thoughts and intents of a living God inscribed on their hearts.  Think about that one, the next time you look in the mirror!!!