The Living Word of God

If you are a saved and born again Christian you will love the Word of God! Have you read your Bible lately? Have you opened the Bible more than any other books? Have you spent time with God and meditated on His Word? Or have you been spending more time doing things of this world? Maybe you have spent more time with all the distractions that this world has to offer by allotting more time watching what is on the television, or surfing the Internet or reading magazines or books or listening to worldly music?

I am privileged, unlike people in other countries where Bible is prohibited, to be able to open and read God’s Word. And with this privilege I just want to share to you that there is also a responsibility that goes with it. My responsibility is to heed the voice of the Holy Spirit in my life that I may fulfill His Word in my life. I say responsibility because I as a child of God want to do that which is good in His sight that will bring honor and glory to His precious name. But take note, I do not do things out of my own righteousness but I am able to do His will through Jesus Christ which strengthens me. And it is my responsibility to witness to other unsaved souls and win them to Christ.

I know God is not the author of confusion but of peace (1 Cor. 14:33). The Word of God is not hard to understand if you are a child of God. If you read the Word of God and words merely swim in front of your eyes and seems like you want to give up because you can’t understand what it means, pray that the Lord may send His Holy Spirit to guide and teach you for He says that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).But first you must get save in order for the Spirit to quicken you, meaning from a dead spirit you become alive through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. For we know that the gods of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believeth not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ Jesus should shine unto them (2 Cor. 4:4). Don’t give up. Just keep on reading His Word and in time the devil will flee from you and tempt you not to fulfill your flesh and instead you yearn of spiritual things.

Religion says that we are not supposed to read the Bible and interpret it on our own. But that is just how Satan works and men are not aware of his devious works. You should ask yourself, why is the Word of God given to men if they are not supposed to read it? There is really no logic in it. But that is just the way the devil tries to manipulate us away from knowing God and His will in our lives. They may quote 2 Peter 1:20-21 that says: Knowing this first that no prophecy on the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. In order to better understand the context of this chapter, you must understand that what Peter was talking about was that the prophecy on the scripture was not made up by man and not by the will of man but that some were a living witness to this prophecy which is all about Jesus Christ. You must read 2 Peter 1:16 that says: For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

I truly believe what 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says, All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,(there is no other book or books other than the Bible that is given to men that is inspired by God, so the Bible is the book unlike other religions that believes that there is the Bible and other books that they live by) and is profitable for doctrine,(the true doctrine by which we believe and live for e.g. salvation, baptism, holy trinity, that brings glory and praise back to His precious name) for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. And that is how I know when I am not in the perfect will of God for the Bible is there for me to search and study and to know what the Lord wills for His child.

It is so true how sometimes we don’t want to hear what the Bible tells us because we don’t want to be corrected. We don’t want to give up our flesh so we can be filled with the Spirit. Or, sometimes we thought that what the preacher is teaching God’s people is wrong (not being well verse yourselves with the Word of God as what Matthew 22: 29 says, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God) then why don’t we heed the advise given in the Bible in Acts 17:11 that says, These were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so and John 5:39 that says, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

So, it is my prayer that someday, if not now, that we lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save souls (James 1:21). Don’t wait for somebody to interpret what you should believe in. You have the Spirit that lives in you to guide and teach you.

Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path