Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” Exodus 34:27
And the Lord gave to us the importance of the written word. Want to remember something? Write it down. Need to recall a Bible verse? Look it up in the written Word of God.
There are a profusion of possible subjects to write about this morning from a frozen traffic jam on I-95 to more news of that virus thing still going back and forth across the Earth. However, today we are all the more impressed with the eleven remaining disciples and a few others who took the good news of Jesus forth to the nations without the written new covenant. Even written copies of the Hebrew scriptures were likely not easily obtained in their day. We might have this mistaken impression of Peter and the gang handing out little copies of the New Testament, but the printing press wouldn't be around for a while yet. And it would be just shy of 1,900 years before the Gideon's got together in Wisconsin. However, those first believers from the disciples to the Pentecosters had someone with them even better than the written word- the Holy Spirit of God.
We may not think that we have the right equipment for the witnessing job, but our Lord Jesus gave to each of us a bit of Himself.
Faithful in Christ,
Bucky
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