What We Owe God

 

What We Owe God

Exodus 20 -  23:9

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

      Wasn’t it enough that God spoke to Israel from the mountain giving the ten commandments?  Wanting to craft a nation out of the lump of indigenous clay brought up from the bank of the Nile, He started the molding spin working from the base up.  Of course, all this followed a slamming down of the mass to the wheel when He showed His might with the plagues.  With elbows into His side, Our Father leaned over the piece to convince the gyrating clod it had boundaries.  The ten commandments centered the work upon the turning table.  But what He did next set Him off as a particular God with vested interest.

     Not content with clay merely conformed to center, He saw more in him.  Plunging His thumbs down, outer walls formed as God showed Israel what vessel he was to be.  Through the judgements following the commandments, God detailed His mind’s expression of justice and guidance.  Driving down and pulling out, Israel’s pot took shape.  Over six hundred laws later, God’s example to the world was complete.

Deuteronomy 7:6 “For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

     What god does that?  Through the pinhole, God gained access to Mankind and got a word in edgewise.  In a brief time, He set down suggestions for our health.  Concepts of cleanliness to civil justice, He intervened with His vehicle holding its treasure from the past.  “Please look inside.”  What God fashioned and fired for the world’s table, He filled with wisdom that all nations following could partake.

John 2:7 “Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.”

     Jesus still turns water into wine today.  His Father’s words were penned down for previous generations and Jesus took over from there.  He came to reveal the spirit of the law.  A Son was needed to personally speak the intent of His Father’s heart.  Others about Him used the laws to trap and tangle.  Jesus used them to liberate.  In them, they were to see a caring Father.

     If we come to His container and drink, sipped water turns to wise wine in us as we mix it with faith.  “Oh, this is true.”  True enough to build a civilization upon.

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