2 Corinthians 3:3
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
I'll never forget when I first learned to drive. My dad beat the floor with his foot so hard that people probably thought we had 15" woofers in the car. One day he stopped me by pulling the emergency brake up and began to tell me that I was definitely going to run into someone or something backwards someday. He opened his Bible to the front cover, you know the blank page on the inside of the Bible? He then proceeded to write, in his best phonetical English... "Steve will run into something backin' up". (If I'm not mistaken he still has the Bible) I'll never forget the final words as he pointed to the writing, "You can bank on it, I wrote it down".
Things written on paper have a tendency to fade or wither away but not things in stone. A friend of mine, Evangelist Junior Hill, once told a story of a woman who's husband died. She went to purchase a tombstone and was asked what to place on it. She asked him to make it read, "The light of my life has now gone out." Well months later she returned to the salesman and asked if it could be changed. The salesman said, "No ma'am. That's written in stone. You can't change things written in stone." So she replied, "Where it says, "The light of my life has gone out... Change the period into a comma and add these words... But I have struck another match."
Looking at today's scripture we see that what God has given unto us, He has wrote upon our hearts. Thank you Lord that your Word never changes. Thank you that your Word needs no additions or revisions. Thank you Lord that you have spoken to our hearts. When we think of the Holy Word of God being applied to the fleshly hearts it sure does make a lot of sense to hide it in our hearts so that we may not sin against God.
Maybe you would like to add commas or phrases to what God has already told you in His word. You would be wrong in doing this. The Light of God's Word is sufficient and accurate. You don't need a PHD to understand it, only the Holy Spirit of God. Allow His Word to flood your heart today.
Ooooohhhhh, and I may back up into something today, but so far... Still good.
