meditations for an everyday relationship with Jesus

Two more tablets

Deuteronomy 10:1-3 "The Lord said to me at that time, 'Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to Me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.'

So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

Do you ever wonder what God was thinking, and what Moses might have been considering, when the task of new tablets containing The Commandments was required?

Maybe for God: “I can see how this is going to go. Measure once, cut twice. Fortunately I have some decent kings and judges already in the wings. And Jesus, You know how this will end, right?”

Maybe for Moses: “I hate to ask again … I really do. He’ll think I have no ability to manage these people … truth is, I don’t. I can barely contain my own anger after all of these years. It is a wonder God has not just burnt me to a crisp out of sheer frustration.

This is humorous; Moses was probably in a foul mood, and God was not surprised,. He was, undoubtedly, concerned about His children’s short attention span.

Be fruitful

Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female. God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth."

What would we be doing (what should we be doing) if we are truly operating with “God’s image” as our guidance system? To begin with we have to understand a little something about what God’s image is and is not.

God’s image is NOT a physical, or graven image; it is not one that imagines an old man with a long white beard half-naked conferring life toAdam from a cloud.

God’s image IS the spiritual nature of God as He manifests Himself in the person of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This spiritual image is the holy and upright part of us that inhabits a fallen body.

Indeed, we should go out and be fruitful physically, but more so in the spirit.