within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart
of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes,
and you will keep My judgments and do them.” (Ezekiel 36:26-27) So if we
want to have any understanding of how God works in the world, we have to
understand how He works in our hearts and spirits.
When we listen to a radio or watch TV we don’t pay much attention to the
radio or TV itself but to the music or message that is coming in. A message is
widely broadcast and the radio waves that carry it are all around us, and even
go right through us, but they are invisible and inaudible until they are picked
up by a receiver. If you were to go on a search for those radio waves without an
antenna you would find no evidence that they exist. Yet through the antenna,
tuner and amplifier in the radio we can hear the message clearly.
Since the message comes into the receiver invisibly it seems as if it is
coming from the radio or TV itself. Someone who does not understand radio
waves may have no comprehension that every sound and image is coming
from somewhere far away.
The Lord is constantly broadcasting messages to all people. Like radio
waves, those spiritual influencers are invisible. We can’t see, hear or touch
them. We may have no idea they are even there. Yet our minds are receivers and
when we pick up those messages they show up in us as thoughts and feelings.
These thoughts and feelings flow in from the Lord through heaven and
hell, through angels and spirits, and sometimes the messages are distorted
along the way. So we have good thoughts that flow in through heaven and
bad thoughts that flow in through hell. The desires, feelings and thoughts that
flow in make up our whole life, just as the messages that come by radio waves
constitute all the life that appears in the
radio or on TV.
The Lord’s Word is like the tuner
for the radio. The tuner allows the radio
to focus on a particular frequency so
that it can make sense of the incoming
radio waves. When we search the Word
with a sincere desire to understand and
follow the Lord’s leading, the truths we
live by tune our minds to a frequency
that can receive the Lord’s messages.
If we believe the Bible literally, but we
are not open to the spirit within, we are
like a radio that has a tuner but does not have an antenna, so it doesn’t pick up
any signal. We are not paying attention to the spirit.
On the other hand, if we reject the Bible completely we can’t tune our
The power and magic
of the commandments
lie in the way they
open up a channel
for the Lord’s love to
flow into our lives.
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