What did you get? In His Word 6-19-2023
This morning as I sipped my coffee preparing my heart and
mind for reading of the Word, I lifted up a quick prayer asking God; “Okay
Lord, what have you got for me today?” I asked.
Now I should mention that I am not reading the Word as if it
were a magical formula for my day, so do not even think that. No, do not even go there.
I was asking Him what He had for me to read. Today I had
chosen to read from a random point in the Word to start me off on my daily
reading. Today I chose to go to a Bible App and see what its ‘word for today’
would be and see if it inspired me to write. The Word of God is after all God breathed,
for inspiring us…
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us
what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us
when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 2 Timothy 3:16
God gave us scripture for a purpose, not just to read
through and study but to be inspired for living a life pleasing to God Himself!
To encourage us to live right by instructing us in
righteousness, or to do what is right. It is not just a history book, though it
is full up on history isn’t it? It can be exciting reading through a chapter,
or a full book in the Old Testament and studying who is who, what they were
doing when they lived and how they lived. It can teach us what happens when we
are obedient to God as well as what happens when we are disobedient. A two
edged sword, the sword of the Spirit, God’s Word. It has different names, some
are in the Bible, and some are human additions, like Holy Bible. It is a
name that Christians give to canonical books of the Old and New Testament inspired
by the Holy Spirit. They have also simply been called Scripture , and, the Bible, Biblia , the Books .
Scripturally speaking the Word of God is powerful!
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.
and there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and
open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:12
I think while I am mentioning the inspiration of the Word, we
know that the Holy Spirit uses the words and examples in it to teach or reveal
to us the desire to know God Himself and how we can get to know Him. I mean of
course the life of Christ, and how it is throughout the Old and New Testaments.
His earthy family and the arrows that point directly to who is the Messiah are
all in the Old Testament and the first four books of the New Testament. It is
kind of fun to compare the accounts of John the Baptist and Jesus and His
teachings. When we realize these also are inspired words from people who either
lived the adventures with Jesus or heard what someone else said and wrote for
them, it generally will change our lives. I should say literally change our
lives because Jesus dying on the Cross did that for us!
Once we know that Jesus is our Lord, it is exciting to hear
that we get to share that knowledge to anyone who will listen and hear! Of
course His Spirit, or the Holy Spirit will be right there helping us to speak
and them to hear with ears to hear…(Matthew 13:15)
For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws
them to me, and at the last day I will raise them up. As it is written in the
Scriptures, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the
Father and learns from him comes to me. (Not that anyone has ever seen the
Father; only I, who was sent from God, have seen him.) john 6:44
Look how much I have written to explain the inspiration of
my day reading the Words, The answer God gave me was exactly this in the Niv
Bible in my App. “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through
Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:”
So I of course had to read back, because God said “All this…”
what was ‘all this’? Keep reading below. Since, then, we know what it is to
fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I
hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again
but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer
those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. If we
are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind,
it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one
died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live
should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was
raised again. So, from now on we regard
no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this
way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation
has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who
reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not
counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of
reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were
making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled
to God. God made him who had no sin to
be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2
Corinthians 5:11-21
All this was all that! God gave me the truth and the purpose
of my life and yours if you are a believer, to share His love, His story, His
life giving gift! Wow, what a big answer!
I had to laugh this morning when I read this! It is so like
God to answer a quick prayer with a solid answer in His Word!
In His Love,