FOOD FOR YOUR JOURNEY

30 October

GOD’S WORD IS SUFFICIENT

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Peter 1:2-4

Christ’s death, burial and resurrection is the basis on which God can show mercy to sinners because the debt of sin was fully paid for by what Jesus accomplished on the Cross of Calvary. Furthermore God has given us His Holy Word to guide and teach us all things that pertain to life and Godliness in this world of ours. Holding fast to the great and precious promises He has given us makes God’s Word sufficient for all our needs.

John Bunyan once said:

The pathway of life is strewn so thickly with the promises of God that it is impossible to take one step without treading on one of them.

The more we think about Him the more we become like Him.  

Don’t visit God’s Word on an occasional basis: Use it as a sanctuary, and live in it, thereby experiencing the secret of Grace and Peace. God has provided for us to have and to experience a life of holiness. So use it!

For the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

This verse is speaking, not of the Living Word, Jesus, but of the written Word, the Bible. The Word of God is:

• Living.
• Powerful.
• Sharper than any two edged sword.
• Piercing the soul and the spirit, the joints and marrow.
• A discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart.

We must remember that it is the Word that judges us NOT we who judge the Word. A common mistake made by all who do not know Jesus. Someone once wrote:

When you read God’s Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself: It is talking to me about me.

 The Word also knows when there is genuine belief and real faith and when there is only an intellectual assent to facts. Let these words sink in:

It is a discerner of thoughts and the intents of the heart.

Be sure where your faith lies.