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God’s Part and Man’s in Rewriting the Law

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 1.

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God’s Part and Man’s in Rewriting the Law

By James G. White

J. G. WHITE
God gave Moses’ two tables of stone of his own workmanship, upon which with his own finger he had written his perfect law. This was his gift to Moses, to Israel, and to the world.
Moses by one hasty act broke the tables of stone, destroyed the sacred writing thereon, and ruined the priceless gift.
That God’s plan shall still be fulfilled, he required Moses to hew the stones this time. Do you know why? Moses could do that. He could not restore the writing which was done by the finger of God, but he could furnish the stones. It was required of Moses to make restoration for his sin as far as possible.
God gave a precious gift to man, a pure heart all written with his perfect law. This gift was the workmanship of God.
Man by his sin effaced the writing, ruined the heart, and spoiled the gift.
That God’s plan may still be fulfilled, that his law may be rewritten, the gift restored, he now commands that we furnish the stone — the tables of the heart. We cannot restore the writing, but we can furnish the heart. God does not do that which we can do. “Son, give me thine heart.” He is waiting for the heart that he may rewrite his law there by his Holy Spirit. Heb. 8: 8-12.
Melrose, Mass.