The Living Word

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

God spoke the world into being.

Further, the Bible teaches, "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."--Genesis 1:27

Of all living things, intelligence and language are what set men apart. Other animals may communicate; some scientists would even say that apes can learn human sign language, but no animal on earth besides man has the complexity and subtlety of language with which I am speaking right now.

Because mankind is intelligent and we have language, we cannot help but notice that there is an order around us. Everything in nature works together in beautiful harmony to keep living things alive, that they may shelter themselves and find food. There is an interconnectedness among all parts of the world that is staggering to the imagination.

Is God Deos ex machina? Are we an experiment in a petri dish that will provide amusement for awhile and then wind up in the trash? No. God is the living word. He spoke creation into existence, and He spoke us into existence according to His image. He gave mankind a marvelous intelligence, emotions deep as an ocean, a sense of beauty and justice, and the ability to express and create in countless ways extremely wonderful and unique.

Because He made us in His image, we can know that God is infinitely committed to mankind. He gave us His words in a book, the Bible. This book has been or is being translated into all the major langauge families on earth.

The Bible teaches that God Himself, this very same Word that created us, incarnated as one of us. John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us... And this Word become flesh died as one of us. Men killed Him. He was crucified, dead, and buried. But the Bible says that on the third day He came back to life, having secured eternal life for all those who will simply believe that He really did do this for them.

Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

Every Sunday the word of God goes out around the world calling men to repent from not knowing Him, not obeying Him, not being interested in Him, even hating Him. Today is the day of repentance and turning to God.

Hebrews 3:15 while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

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Father, my words fall so far short in expressing the wonderment and amazement in my heart that You gave us the faculty to comprehend You. The universe and all creation are so extremely beyond all that I am or can think--and that tells me that You are huge! Yet Your word, the word in Your book, which I can pick up and read daily, tells me that You loved me enough to come to earth as a person like me and to die for me. I pray, Lord, that Your word would bring new life to someone's heart today. Thank You for loving me! In Jesus, Amen.