WHAT COULD JESUS HAVE WRITTEN IN THE SAND? LET'S SEE!
For years I wondered what Jesus could have written in the sand that was special enough that #1 He would stoop down twice in the middle of their conversation with Him to doodle on the ground and #2, that it would be told to us in scripture that He did it while concealing and keeping secret, precisely what He wrote! Are you curious?!
First, let's recall what was going on when Jesus did it so we may see it in the context that it happened. Men came to Jesus with a woman they said to have caught in the act of adultery & they sought to put Jesus in a position where His heart in the matter, would conflict with the law of the land.. since the law was clear that such an offense warranted public execution. Once the men openly questioned Jesus on what He would do concerning the adulterous woman's fate, it was THEN that Jesus paused & stooped down to write in the sand before answering them in the matter.
After writing something in the sand he stood back up & asked that any among them who hadn't been guilty of an offense before to get first in line to cast stones upon her in execution. As he give them some time to ponder it, he once again stooped back down & wrote in the sand again.. afterwards, seeing that everyone had dropped their stones & fled, they’d obviously experienced mercy before in their own faults.
This still left me with the question.. "What did Jesus write in the sand?" I thought that if it were important enough for the passage to mention that He did it, but does not share WHAT He wrote, then I must’ve asked the wrong question. The "message" he wrote was not the point, it was that he wrote something & not WHAT, but HOW He wrote.. IN THE SAND.
I thought of things such as "Moses Law" which God wrote in tablets of stone and how IN-CONTRAST on this occasion with the adulterous woman that Jesus' strategy caused her accusers to fail in including stones.. while Jesus included SAND. Perhaps Jesus was publicly showing them He was taking notes of her unlawful offense as He wrote in the sand.. I think it's plausible to believe that to be the case. By writing in the sand, anyone who's ever used a "Etch & Sketch" before OR built a Sand Castle, knows that whatever you're working on in the sand you ultimately do not intend to preserve for any decent length of time.
So there, I'd arrived at my conclusion.. Jesus wrote in the sand IS "the message" and it's NOT the content which He wrote there which was. We're to take notice He writes our wrongs in the sand, ever-willing to pardon & forget if only we confess to Him & repent.. He's prepared to shake the "Etch & Sketch" to lose our records in the grains of sand forever. Your sins aren't written in stone.. He wants you to know they're written in the sand! Grace, GRACE.. Marvelous Grace... When Jesus Forgives it's clear He also FORGETS!
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Keep your head up & your faith strong!
-Pastor Kenny (Psalm 91)
With all the evil things going on in the world lately, let this serve as a reminder that God keeps his covenants and fulfills his promises!! Watch as an ancient river is reborn in about 2 minutes in the heat of a dry, Israel Desert, just as Prophesied in Isaiah 43:19 "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." Trust that a Red Sea moment is just around the bend.. What a Awesome God! (have some more thoughts on this I'll add in comments)
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Footage collected a while ago of a dry riverbed spring back to life after centuries in the Negev Desert of Israel, near the Ramon Crater. The Prophet Isaiah said this in Isaiah 43:19 "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."
This site is in the region referred in scripture as Beersheba, which means "Well of Seven." Abraham called the place Beersheba because it was there that he entered a covenant agreement for a well of water for posterity and marked the event by offering seven lambs.
Years later, Philistines buried the well because it was dry but Abraham's son, Isaac, came to reclaim the well and water began to flow for him again. The Philistines wanted the well for themselves once water sprang up for Isaac so they took it and Isaac moved a short distance down and claimed another spot in which a well sprang up. Each time Isaac allowed the Philistines to take possession of a well,...
One day a young man got a letter from an attorney stating his grandmother left an inheritance for him. To his astonishment, it was $50,000 as well as "my Bible & all it contains." He was thrilled to get the $$$, however, he knew what the Bible contained & because he rejected religion he wouldn't open it, but put it up on a high shelf. He lost the money gambling & the next 50 yrs he lived as a beggar, scraping for every meal. Eventually he became so destitute that he had to move out of his house. As he cleaned out his room he reached up to get the old Bible he'd stored away on a high shelf & as he took it down it fell on the floor open, revealing a $100 bill between every page. He'd lived as a beggar all because of his own prejudice & disregard to His Creator.. all while thinking he knew what the Bible "contained." Hosea 4:6 says My people perish for a lack of knowledge.
Keep your head up & your faith strong!
-Pastor Kenny
