If Your Mother Says She Loves You Check It Out

We all can just take things for granted, this was from last Mar 07. So much of what I used to think was wrong. The if your mother says she loves you check it it came from Gary North. I believe it was a saying reporters would use.

"The word says God will write his law on our heart."

The Word does say that God will write his law on our hearts ....but If we believe that God has written his law on our hearts, or even in our minds, then why do we need to keep reading our Bibles? Why have our children reading their Bibles, won't God write it on their hearts too?....great, now I have more free time...

I had just assumed that this is how it is, I think, He's already done it, rather than going back to God's word to see if what is coming out of my heart and mouth lines up with his Word.

Now that would prove that he has done it! Or more accurately that he has done some of it...

We cannot assume that because were born again...that if we are comfortable with something ... (our hearts don't condem us)..that it must be okay with God,.... rather than looking to the only sure witness from Him (His word) to see if we have lined up with Him. When we read.... "We should treat others as we would be treated, for that sums up the Law and the Prophets..".. Do we go back to see ... "just what was it?".... that they, "the Law and the Prophets" have said ?" ...and am I lining up with it?

The Bereans searched the scripture to see if it was so... and it seems we are quick to check our standard "he bible" when it comes to what is being taught, which is good....but do we give our hearts and minds a free pass...if our reason for doing something, or believing something, is not founded on the word, than something other than the Word has smuggled its way into our hearts as the standard.

Sometimes it seems that things are just assumed to be the norm, "everyone thinks this way".....or.... we just notice that this seems to be how all the other Christians around us are living, but in doing so we make other believers the standard, not God's Word.

One last thought, we need to start asking people when they mention "the law"...what do you mean by that? I had no idea that the "law" meant precepts and statutes... so when someone says "do you think we need to follow the law?" We should ask ...which precepts and statutes are you talking about? We must use God's definitions for everything....Then we could say "No, we don't need to sacrifice a lamb anymore... we have a new covenant now. Or no, you cannot commit adultery and you shouldn't even look with lust at any women.