Sunday, March 1, 2009

To the law and to the testimony...

Isaiah
{8:20} To the law and to the testimony:
if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because
[there is] no light in them.

Proverbs
{3:1} My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep
my commandments: {3:2} For length of days, and long life,
and peace, shall they add to thee. {3:3} Let not mercy and
truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them
upon the table of thine heart: {3:4} So shalt thou find favour
and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
{3:5} Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. {3:6} In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
{3:7} Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and
depart from evil. {3:8} It shall be health to thy navel, and
marrow to thy bones. {3:9} Honour the LORD with thy
substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
{3:10} So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy
presses shall burst out with new wine.
{3:11} My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD;
neither be weary of his correction: {3:12} For whom the
LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in
whom] he delighteth.


Hebrews {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


Exodus {31:18} And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an
end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables
of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus {32:15} And Moses turned, and went down from the
mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his
hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the
one side and on the other [were] they written. {32:16} And
the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the
writing of God, graven upon the tables.

Exodus {38:21} This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the
tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the
commandment of Moses

Rev. {15:5} And after that I looked, and, behold,
the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was
opened

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To the law and to the testimony.

If they speak not according to this word--

It is because there is no light in them.

God's word, God's law, God's testimony.

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Hebrews {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

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Laws in our minds.

Laws in our hearts.

God - our God and we His people.

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Do you have the law of God in your mind? In your heart?

The law of God.

The law of our Creator.

The law written on our hearts in our minds.

If the law is written in our very beings we can't believe we don't know the law.

In the day and age of information- even called the 'information age', we can know just about anything with the push of a few keys on a keyboard.

Go ahead go to your web browser, 'google it', or 'yahoo it', or 'ask.com it', use the search engine of your choice and just type in 'law of God' and see what pops up.

Or better yet, grab your Bible- Bibles are everywhere, churches are everywhere, in churches are Bibles.

In America at least, there is access to this information.

Yes, in our hearts and minds the law is written as well. Seriously.

We might not believe it, might want to deny it, but it's true.

Before Christ returns, before the world as we know it is over there will not be a single person who hasn't been given the opportunity to know the love of God through the mercy and grace of His only Son, the embodiment of the law of God.

Our hearts, our minds, we know even if we don't want to think about what we know. Just as we learn the multiplication tables- does that mean we keep thinking about them? No. There is a whole wealth of information that we learn and promptly never think about again. Just because we learn something or have something in our minds and hearts doesn't mean it's part of our life- we have to think on these things in our minds and hearts for them to be pertinent.

You might think if something is in our heart we have to think on it, but seriously, how many family members do you believe you love and truly love and care for but days and days can go by without thinking of them? Perhaps there is an old aunt you vaguely remember and remember with fondness, you even feel love for that old aunt. We can't say that love for the aunt is important to you because even though the love is there upon remembrance, it's not prominent.

So, yes, we can have forgotten love in our hearts, we can have a lot of things in our minds, but that which is important to us we don't forget.

If God is important to us we will be thinking about Him. Those laws written on our hearts and in our minds will be thought of and often. Jesus lived the law, He did not break the law in one single point. He brought the law to life. When we learn of Jesus we learn of God, His Father our Creator.

May the law that lives within our hearts and minds become important to us so that we truly have God as our God and that we truly are His people.

By the mercy and grace of Jesus our Savior.

Amen

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