Greetings All,

Let us start with Scripture again reading from The New English Bible:

"It is not by hearing the law, but by doing it, that men will be justified before God.  When Gentiles who do not possess the law carry out its precepts by the light of nature, then, although they have no law, they are their own law, for they display the effect of the law inscribed on their hearts."  Romans 2:14-15

One of our first reactions to reading this might be to ask if those who have not heard about Jesus can be saved if they have lived a life that reflects Christian principles?  The best answer I can give is "maybe," but that is not the pit I want to root around in this morning.  More than anything I want us to see the truth that Paul is proclaiming regarding the relation of our hearts and our lives.  Whether the question of the one who has not heard being saved or not is answered here, what is professed with great clarity is that when "the law is inscribed on our hearts" our lives will display the effects!  If we have embodied the truth of Christ in our heart, our lives will display that truth in the way we live, the way we love, the way we serve.  It is just another way of stating that when we truly allow Christ to transform our lives that we cannot help but live lives that make it easy for others to believe in Him.  Here Paul is letting us know that when our heart has been transformed by  the truth of God in Christ our lives will display the effects!  The question for each of us today then becomes, "What effects are we displaying?"

Your brother in Christ,
Faron