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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Development of Eternal Life, #4
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. (II Corinthians 3:3—NIV)
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: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10,11)
When we start out as a Christian we have to do much as the Jews did: we must learn the Scriptures and behave as they direct. The initial difference is that we have the blood of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the born-again experience to help us live righteously.
After a while a marvelous circumstance occurs. We realize we are experiencing an inner transformation that is making us the Word of God. Truth is being created in our inner being.
Under the old covenant God wrote the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets. The finger of God wrote the words.
Under the new covenant the finger of God again writes the moral law. This time, however, the writing surface is not stone. The writing surface for the new covenant is the mind and heart of the Christian believer. The "ink" is the Spirit of God. The new covenant can be written only in the personality of the member of the Body of Christ.
The Lord puts His holy laws in our mind so we understand the will of God.
The Lord writes His holy laws on our heart so we will be motivated to choose to do the will of God from our inner nature.
When our mind and heart have been transformed by the writing of the Word of God on them and in them, then we are the new covenant. Then we are the highest expression of God's holy Law, the light of the world, a city set on a hill—the new Jerusalem.
The end of the new covenant is the full knowledge and possession of Christ, which is eternal life. Eternal life will be possessed in varying degrees by the "least" and the "greatest" of the people of the Lord. This is the full outcome of the new covenant.
We have mentioned the specific will of God for us as an individual. The sons of God are led by the Holy Spirit. The revelation of God to us is a source of Divine truth making us know the specific will of God. Obedience to the revealed will of God to us personally brings us to the knowledge of the Holy One. To gain the knowledge of God is one of the principal reasons for man's experiences on the earth.
How does one find the will of God for his or her life? Sometimes it is fairly simple to discover the will of God, and the burden of the Lord and His directions are clear. We know in our heart, whether by conviction, dream, vision, where to go and what to do and say.
At other times it is not as easy to come to an understanding of the will of God for us personally. We may sit obediently in darkness for many years, waiting for the mind of the Lord to be revealed to us. We are required to keep on performing the practical tasks set before us while we are seeking the Face of God.
To be continued.