My youngest daughter loves being organized. As a young child, she preferred to have her household duties written in list form so that she could mark them off to measure her progress. Even now, she is happiest when she makes her own list of all her homework, chores, and other projects in hand, ready to be checked off when completed. She is frustrated when she can’t record important information that she wants to keep track of and will go to great lengths to do so.
I have always had a personal lack of appreciation for tattoos. Imagine my surprise when one of her common strategies involves a pen or marker and one or both arms! It is not uncommon for her to come home with various bits of information recorded in several colors!
God wants to record important things in unique places too! He says to us-
“I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.” Jeremiah 31:33.
Law? Do I really want to have a bunch of rules in me? Paul clears that up pretty directly.
for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8
I can imagine God saying,” I will put my law of love in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will engrave a picture of My Son in you. I will upload Who I Am into you so that you will reflect me.
Do you ever find it difficult to act like Jesus? I sure do. Does it seem that no matter how hard you try, self keeps pushing to the forefront? Jesus knows that. Why else would he promise to write in us? All we need to do is to give Him writing privileges on our heart hard drive. And He will. He will write Himself into us so that we act more like Him and less like us.. It’s not about us and our hard work. It is all about Him writing in us. It’s grace.
Father, You have permission to engrave Your law of love on my heart, carve a picture of Jesus in the center of me. Do it in bold, italics, and all CAPS, Father! Let me look more like the Son and less like me every day.
shared in the workplace 1/14/10.
I really liked that one! The illustration was great. Sis thought that was funny. I liked the part u said about writing on our hard drive, and the part about uploading who God is into us so that we look like him. The technology part of it made me think differently. That’s something I want to do more of this year–asking God to make me look more like him, asking him to draw himself on me so that it’s God that people see first, not me. I want to get up first thing every morning and synch my life with his. Good thought, Daddy!