God Said.

Scripture starts with a song. Its lyrics speak of creation. Its lyrics give me my beginning understanding of God’s power. It is my first introduction to God’s Word.

After creating the heavens and the earth, creation continued by His powerful Word:

Let there be light.

Let there be sky.

Let there be land and seas.

Let the land produce vegetation.

Let there be sun, moon, and stars.

Let the land produce living creatures.

Let us make mankind in our image and in our likeness.

 

God spoke and His indescribable power exploded results.

When the Hebrew people heard God’s Word, they feared for their lives and asked Moses to speak and hear from this powerful Word on their behalf. God’s Word was more than the people could handle.

The Fourth Gospel begins with, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.  In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

God chose to communicate His Word to us in the form of the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus. All of that at a holy expense so great it would freeze any computer trying to calculate its cost.

What concerns me is how comfortable and common I make God’s Word.

What God spoke into existence becomes so normal to me that I hardly give it a second thought.

I have a record of God’s Word in my Bible. Through thousands of years of God’s intervention with man, His Spirit inspired words support in complete harmony the storyline of His love for me and the plans He has for me to live with Him in the garden.

How could this not be an around the clock attention grabber?

There are times when I read His Word from Scripture and find my mind wondering to the mundane. I read words from God and don’t shake in my proverbial boots.

What’s going on here? Is it I or is it my culture that makes God’s Word ordinary? Or—just maybe—am I growing as His friend and feeling more at ease in His presence?

Stay tuned. – Gary J Sorrells