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Jesus writing in the sand – pondering – self conviction… 14Jul

I think I answered my own question while I was extra pondering while writing a friend – I figured out for myself the question about Jesus taking time to write … after I thought i was getting side tracked I found an answer to my original question – God likes me thinking full circle in my writing… God is so patient… the answer to the question is the same as the answer to ALL my questions – I will figure them out if I ponder long enough in God’s word in my heart… Smiles

So, a random question –

What does Jesus write in the sand when the woman is awaiting her accusers at the stoning? – if there are unimportant things left out of the bible then why is this one thing left in? – is it just Jesus marking time? and he did it twice… is he waiting out the people to give them time to think and not staring them in the face to accuse them – but letting their own conscious take over – and giving them time before they left…. OR some googling says he may have been writing the Jewish law down – but again the writing itself is likely not important – but interesting if it Jesus showing that he is not even worrying about the people trying to trap him… he doesn’t have to even bother face them… hmmm…. just curious… i know it might be unimportant to the story – but i wonder… and how did this story get put back into the bible if the early people didn’t include it? we are so disconnected with the concept of time- I was just standing at the 1300’s castles in Europe – it puts you in awe that they were only 1300 years and not 2000 years removed from Jesus’ time – and it begs yet another question – how long will God let the world continue to have pockets of drifting from his teaching and pockets of strong following of his teaching? curious – and humans have such a narrow view of “how church used to be” because they think of church when they were kids and they have no concept of church 200, 500 or 1000 years ago… we think about the money “wasted” on huge things these days and then you look at all that GOLD in the cathedrals in Europe – more gold than I have ever seen – and you wonder what they could have done with all that money… I wonder if God sometimes just shakes his head – like Adam and Eve – “what did they do that for? it’s going to take me forever to fix this” – ah, the human nature of humans – shaking his head – but smiling at small victories of souls won over…

anyway I am getting side tracked – at least Jesus wrote in the sand and not in gold… His message was delivered temporary for the time and thus required human to human spreading of the word rather than Jesus telling everyone to write down exactly has he said… no gold-embossed images of the word… hmmm… sounds like a new thing to ponder… hmmm… now that is a very good thing to ponder… Through Jesus, God set up person to person connections to make this happen… set up something tough to do – but the only way to convict people is for them to convict themselves and learn how to turn to God for themselves – that woman had to do that too – she had to convict herself because Jesus wasn’t about to condemn her… yeah…. – we have to convict ourselves of our sins – we have a very patient God – taking time writing in your heart instead of sand – until he puts you in a spot where you can’t escape your own sins… hmmm… full circle i think i answered my own question – Jesus wrote as the people were examining their hearts and he would have stayed there and wrote and wrote and wrote until they could read their own hearts… cool….