The Word of God

Every time we read God’s word it is His gift to us. It is His inspired, inherent, infallible, authoritative and all sufficient word for us.....

‘His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night’.  (Psalm 1:2) (all Scripture references are taken from the NKJV)

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In Jan’s recent blog of the 16th July she referenced a video clip, posted on the Church’s WhatsApp group, regarding a powerful testimony about Chinese Christians; I also refer to it here. Their hunger, desire and longing for the word of God (the bible) and the lengths they go to access it, receive teaching and imprint it on their hearts and minds, left me feeling incredibly humbled but more importantly challenged. It caused me to question just how much I valued the word of God. To what degree do I reach for it, dig into it, treasure it, memorise it, and believe it?  How do I and we, use it?

We are so fortunate and blessed in this country to have easy access to bibles. We remain at liberty to meet with one another freely, to read and discuss God’s word and to receive teaching from the Word by anointed preachers and teachers. The downside of this ease is that we can so readily take this blessing and these activities for granted and neglect them.

Every time we read God’s word it is His gift to us. It is His inspired, inherent, infallible, authoritative and all sufficient word for us which repeatedly and openly reveals the Triune God and in so doing we build and develop our relationship with Him. We have the wonderful account in Luke’s gospel, chapter 24, of Jesus’ view of Scripture. On the road to Emmaus He engaged with two travellers, v. 27 ‘And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself’. In verses 44-49 Jesus continues teaching them and ‘He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures’ v 45.  From this we see Jesus upholding the truth and validity of the Scriptures i.e. our Old Testament. 

Alistair Begg, in one of his devotionals clearly states that ‘the call to memorise Scripture is in fact a call to arms. Every soldier needs a weapon. Every Christian needs the word of God’.  In Matthew 4 we read how Jesus was tempted mightily and three times used the word of God, ‘it is written...’ to resist and rebut Satan and his misuse of Scripture.  Just in these two illustrations alone we clearly see what Jesus thought, taught and practised with regards to the Word of God.

Paul also instructs believers to ‘Take (use) the ... sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God’.  (Eph. 6:17) - a vital part of the whole armour of God that is provided for Christians to ‘put on’ for spiritual defence to be able to hold position whilst under attack.

My thoughts and words for this blog are brief, under developed and certainly transient.  However and more importantly I leave you with some Holy Scriptures – to read and use and like the Chinese Christians we heard about, memorise.  They are the inspired, inherent, infallible, authoritative, all sufficient, timeless and eternal Words of God for every believer.

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‘For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.’ Hebrews 4:12

‘Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.  Blessed are You, O Lord!  Teach me Your statutes’ Psalm 119:11-12. 

‘Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.’ Psalm 119:73

‘Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven’ Psalm 119:89

‘Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path’ Psalm 119:109 

‘For the word of the LORD is right, And all His work is done in truth’ Psalm 33:4

‘But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves’ James 1:22

‘The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.’ Isaiah 40:8

‘So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth, It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.’ Isaiah 55:11

‘As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.’ 2 Samuel 22:31

[The Son] ‘who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high ...’ Hebrews 1:3

 ‘All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work’.  (2 Tim 3:16-17)

Amen.

Author: Irene Cherrill

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