Wednesday, January 23, 2013

An Autographed Original

Someone posted this silly picture on Facebook recently:



My first thought was that it would be sooooo cool to have a copy of the Bible with God's signature on it!  What would it look like?  Or would it be autographed by Moses, David, Matthew...?  A variety a scripts and scrawls?

The thoughts were barely formed before I heard the whisper, "I've autographed your heart."

Which choked me up immediately...  My heart.  Signed by God?  The God that made the northern lights and wove the delicate lace of the snow flakes.  The God who pulls children onto His lap and raises the dead.  The God who sets the captives free.  His signature on my heart?

I vaguely remembered a verse that said something like that...

  "You are a letter written not with ink 
but with the Spirit of the living God. 
You are a letter written not on tablets made out of stone
 but on human hearts".

But isn't my heart "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked"?  I used to think that was talking about me. There's certainly enough evidence to prove the point.  I don't know how it was that a little girl would know that verse so well without knowing the rest of the story...


The part where we cry out, 


"O Lord, if you heal me, I will be truly healed;
 if you save me, I will be truly saved."

And He responds, 


"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean...
I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. 
 I will take out your stony, stubborn heart 
and give you a tender, responsive heart.  
And I will put my Spirit in you..."

Tender.  Responsive.  Filled with His Spirit!  Given when we ask that He would heal and save us.  An extravagant grace that takes your breath away. 


On that new heart He's writing a letter.  It's a story of redemption   The story of a deceitful and wicked heart that is made new and chooses love.  It's so extraordinary that there is no question that this "great power is from God, not from ourselves."  

That letter He's writing on your heart is precious.  I need to read it...it gives me hope.  With trepidation I share the letter He's writing on my heart...it's a love letter, a promise that He makes all things new, makes all things possible.


That tender, responsive heart, filled with His Spirit...  A gift.  


An autographed original.


2 Corinthians 3:3 NIRV; Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
Jeremiah 17:14 NLT; Ezekiel 36:25 NLT
2 Corinthians 4:7 NLT


1 comment:

  1. What an encouraging word from God. Thanks for sharing it.

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