Diving in.....
Something interesting occurred to me the other day: Jesus never wrote, or if he did, it is never recorded that he did (except perhaps when he knelt and started to write in the dirt when they brought Him the adulterous woman) and none of it survived (we are not even told what he wrote in the ground!).
I found the thought when sailing through my own musings on loving to write and thinking what Jesus would have written about. Then it hit me, he never did! I don't know why I never noticed it before.
I mean, really, many people accept Jesus as deity but they reject the bible as man's deal. I do believe Jesus made a point of this request for faith.
Could he not have easily kept journals!!!? One would think being the most important person in human history, he certainly would have! Why did God not have that on his mission statement? "Now, once you're mortal, document daily so we can prove to everyone what you said and did!" On a humorous note, can you imagine how that would have read? "Messiah's Log: 10th day of the seventh month, 15 AD."
Well, to me it says a lot once I realized it. It says that He did not worry about how his words and actions would be further remembered, he was busy with DOING his Father's business. He did not need to toot his own horn as we would say now.
However, more powerfully, God meant for the writing to be a miraculous inspiration through men as the rest of the bible was. This takes greater faith and humility on our part.
Quite honestly, I've not decided what all it initials. I just find it somehow fascinating that Jesus didn't leave a scrap of writing in his own hand or voice. That is some purposeful plan for certain.
Don't you think?
In all other religions, are there not recorded writings of their founders? I'm not sure but I think that may be so.
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