"Then God speaks into us. It's the difference between hearing and listening. God's word becomes alive when hearts and minds open to the Spirit of God. God's word speaks into them – and we find that words that were just words come alive. How many times have you had that situation where you've looked at a passage of scripture and what were familiar words sometimes come alive and you know God is speaking to you personally through them?"
Then "There is this wonderful picture of the word of God being a double edged sword. It's a sword that can cut two ways. When God speaks into our lives, we can experience two extremes – judgement and blessing. But the other advantage of the Roman two-edged sword was that it was heavy – it could easily chop and enemy in two – not for the faint-hearted. It's the same when God speaks into our lives – He can cut right to the chase – He can get into the deepest part of our beings. If we are prepared, He can get right down to the very things in our lives that are stumbling blocks to us: those secret and hidden things – our thoughts and our attitudes. If you think that sounds bad; that you don't want to be reminded of all those things in your life ... – then remember that it's a two-edged sword. The challenge that God brings as He speaks to us also has blessing attached to it. As God deals with the deep things in our lives, He brings blessing too."
Nothing is hidden from God. Our thoughts. Our actions. Our words. Our attitudes. Nothing. It's amazing that this is passage was on my day (....speaking of God's word being living and active, lol!...) because I am dealing with a situation with my Mom and Dad and this reminder about everything being uncovered and that I need to give an account for my life before God directs my thoughts to what God will ask of me about this situation. Now it is my job to not just hear it but to listen as well.
Tomorrow's scripture focus: Hebrews 4:14-16
Tomorrow's Bible In a Year Passage passage: Job 40-42
2 comments:
I love the fact that we can continue to learn new things from the same passages when we read the Bible. I don't remember how many times one of us commented last year that we'd read a passage we knew we had read the year before but found something new, but it happened quite a few times. Amazing.
What I think is fascinating too is that God will bring His Word to our minds exactly when we need it (IF we have learned it!)
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