10 Minutes
Every word read or studied from the bible, every word spoken concerning
the content of the bible must be characterized by deep thought. The most
somber disposition must be displayed to ensure there is no trifling with the
distinctive character of each word. Every word of truth read or spoken must
be reflective of good judgment. We are to have a strong sense of
responsibility to humbly hear and receive the word of God. And whenever
we have the opportunity to share the word in any manner, it is to be as though
we breathe out that spirit which was breathed into us at the beginning. Every
word of God carries with it, its own creative power. Every word has its own
fulfilment in that it is alive and incorruptible. The word is eternal because God
is eternal. The word is living because God is living. The word is powerful
because God is powerful. Everything that is true of God is true of His word.
We receive the very life of God when He gives us the seed of His word. All
things that He determined, everything in His plan for our life comes within
our reach. God determined His will, the Word declared it, and we are to hear
it.
When we are serious about the word, we give it access to the deepest parts
of our being, inviting it to test our hearts. There is an ever-increasing
effectiveness of the word when we understand its capability to allow God to
speak to us deep inside – in our spirit when we receive it. The word of God
is grounded in the truth and builds faith that we can overcome every subtilty
that opposes the presence and purposes of God in this world. When Jesus’
words are in us, they empower us to want what he wants and will what he
wills. When we pray with his word in us, we’re so tuned to God’s will that we
don’t need to pray, ‘If it be Thy will’. We already know God’s will because the
word in us has renewed our minds shaping our sanctification. Every word of
God which we truly receive in our spirit reveals itself in our thoughts, our
deeds, and our words.
God is the God of covenant. He created man in His image and His likeness,
which implies that we also have a covenant nature. And God’s covenant is
of such a truth of commitment that He promises us Himself! God gave us,
He gives us Himself in Jesus Christ. And now God’s words become our
words. This is what fulfills the promises of the covenant...when we declare
them with our mouths. And with that we make two faith avowals; Abba,
Father and Jesus is Lord. We could do neither of these without the Holy
Spirit. It is He who bears witness with, in, and to us that we are God’s
children. And it is He who testifies with and to us that Jesus is Lord. The
seriousness of the word must be so principled as to detail the circumstances
of our life that we abandon the world. Our desire is to perfectly fulfil God’s
righteous standards and re-establish the love relationship we enjoyed before
the fall. The solution is in the Christ of the cross.
The word of God is not silent, sullen or remote; He’s the God of revelation
who personally speaks and declares Himself to His people. With every word
He reveals something about His own character and integrity. And His word
is not ‘economical’ with the truth. It prevails exceedingly above our thoughts.
And yet, we are made capable to spiritually grasp understanding through our
reasoning with God under the graces of the presiding Holy Spirit. Jesus is
himself ‘the truth’. All his words are fully the revelation of God’s truth. The
written record of God’s word to us as expressed in temporal form does not
contain everything that God ever says to His people. God is infinite. And we
are to have no averseness to any word in scripture. There are revelations
and deeper sufficiencies however, that teaches us all we need to know about
God. We need but to allow the Word to breathe on us that our wisdom shows
to be consistent with the word of God. While here, everything we need to
understand about God is reasoned in the scripture when we learn to die to
our own thoughts, emotions, feelings, desires and ambitions, and surrender
to His full control.
God makes Himself known to us in many ways in creation and in His
providence, but when it comes to His word...the judgments of His mouth are
magnified even above the designation of His glory. God is fixed in His
position and in His character, but His word extends to His fixed
determination. His name is used for everything which the name of God
covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by
mentioning, hearing, remembering who He is in authority, His interests, His
pleasure, His commands, His excellences, His doings and yet even so are
greater things done by His word. The wonders of grace exceed the wonders
of nature; and what is discovered of God by revelation is the much more
greater discerned and encountered by reason. In this we come to the
essential Word...we come to know Jesus. Number the words in the bible that
Jesus spoke. They are finite. Now think on how many words he most surely
spoke in just the three and a half years of his ministry. Jesus’ seriousness in
the word can be heard in just one of his words. He says “Go”.
I pray that we undertake to know how serious is the word. By it we grow in
the grace of God, and it increases our relationship with Him. But and if we
do not seek to understand the fulness of the word the opposite can happen.
We can slide away from God in the other direction.
Now think of the intercourse between God the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit in the Counsel of Determination. Think of the passages of directives to
His four living creatures, His Seraphims, His Cherubims. Think of the
groanings of the Holy Spirit making serious the ascendant words of our
prayers. Now think of the words that are not rooted in the bible and the bible
alone as was shared to the unfallen worlds. This was received in the pure
state of innocence as the inspired word of God. Think of how the recording
angels embrace every word spoken that the twenty and four elders present
to God. Some in our favor and some for our disservice to God. As we study
God’s word our seriousness of mind must be as disciplined as self-
awareness allows us to understand spiritual answers that we may expand
and clarify truth by wisdom and reason. In this we maintain the peace of mind
to wait with patience for every issue inwardly impressed to be outwardly
expressed, in the uprightness of intention and fervency of affection, that none
who speaks or receives the truth of the word will be ashamed of it.
Here's the new reality that too many forget...Jesus is the Son of God, yes.
And Jesus is God, yes. He is the one who after He created everything, now
upholds all things by the word of His power. All things cohere in Him, and
they are unto Him. And He conquers in the same way that He
creates....through the power of His word. If He has power to do all of these
amazing things by His words, can we even begin to imagine what the Lord
can do with those who gratefully and eagerly receive these words? I say to
us again...the word is serious.
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