SECRET WRITING IN THE DUST

SECRET WRITING IN THE DUST
OR

THE MYSTERY OF WHAT JESUS WROTE ON THE GROUND

BY DR. MERVYN ABREO

          There is a lot of speculation as to what Jesus wrote in the dust in the court of the temple.

          In the eighth chapter of the Book of John, when Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, a woman caught in the very act of adultery was brought to Him for judgment.

  

          On one hand Jesus had to be just and, as per the Law, declare that she should be stoned to death; the very same Law that He as God had decreed through Moses.

           And there was no escape from this!

                                                                

          But on the other hand, if He condemned her, there was absolutely no way that any sinner had any chance of finding any hope, grace or mercy from Him.

          And therefore He was trapped! At least that’s what the condemning Pharisees thought.

          So the Lord bent down and scribbled in the dust. I am using the word scribbled because His writing was symbolic. And it got results! The Pharisees came under condemnation and left one by one.   

                                                            

           It is only when we go back to the Old Testament, that we fully comprehend the full extent of what the ‘scribbling’ did.

          The answer is found in Exodus 31:18: “When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.”

          We have to realize that Jesus is God and did not come into existence two thousand years ago, but was always in existence.

(The reader is advised to read: “The secrets of the mystery of the Trinity revealed,” which is also in this blog).

          Therefore the finger that wrote in the temple courtyard dust, was the same finger that inscribed the Ten Commandments.

                                                                    

          The Ten Commandments convinces man (conviction/ condemnation) of his sinful state. As Jesus wrote on the ground He challenged them: “ If anyone of you is without sin let him be the first to throw a stone at her” and those who had accused the woman, began to go away one at a time until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.

          Then Jesus tells her that since there is no one to condemn her, neither would He. (Because the Law came through Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.)

          The Lord knows that, like the rest, she too is convicted of sin. And so He sends her off but not before a warning: “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

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Dear friend,

          I look forward to getting your feedback. Do write in to me at:

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