“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105 ESV
God’s Word is the guiding Light by which men might be saved.
God’s Word is the guiding Light by which men might be saved. There is no other way by which men might be saved than by God’s Way. God’s Way is revealed and seen by God’s Word. We know that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:1-5 NKJV).
Christ is the Word, and the Word is Truth.
Christ is the Word, and the Word is Truth. There is nothing greater than the Word. There is no higher pillar of Truth than Him Who is Truth. Christ is the Word and what Christ has spoken is Truth. If Christ declares that God’s Word is Truth, then it is Truth. This means that we cannot pervert truth. For anyone who does so is a liar, deceiver, and self-seeking transgressor.
Those who do not bend their knee before Him Who is Truth shall stand and praise every false doctrine.
Those who do not bend their knee before Him Who is Truth shall stand and praise every false doctrine. They will be lovers of pleasure, money, and anything that comforts them in sin. For we know that the way of a true born-again believer is hard. God's Word deals with the realities of life. It does not suffocate one in simple, softened truths. It does not slowly bind one into a bone crushing death that is led by neglecting tougher truths. God's Word is real and reality can be difficult.
Only those who are both seekers of Truth and willing to let the Truth change them shall enter into the Light.
Only those who are both seekers of Truth and willing to let the Truth change them shall enter into the Light. For any man or woman that believes in Christ and repents of their sins shall become born again. In this beautiful transition from death to life, the Holy Spirit enters into that person. He is the Light within. He is the seal of proof that we are covered by the Blood. He is the One Who is revealed Truth within.
Any person who possesses the Holy Spirit will never question if God’s Word is Truth.
Any person who possesses the Holy Spirit will never question if God’s Word is Truth. They may not always understand what It says. They may have questions about what appears to be a contradiction and how it works in unison. Doctrinal questions are all fine and normal in our pursuit of knowing God more intimately.
In the midst of having questions, those who have the Holy Spirit will never say, “Well, I’m not sure if this is actually the Word of God.” For the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. Christ said in John 16:13 (NKJV) that ““when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.””
If God declares that His Word is Truth, then it is Truth.
If God declares that His Word is Truth, then it is Truth. All that it teaches is infallible. Only those who truly love God in a Biblical way will believe that God’s Word is the Ultimate Authority. His Word came in the form of flesh through Christ. John 1:14 (ESV) declares that “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
Anyone who believes that God’s Word does not mean what It says has a low view of God.
Anyone who believes that God’s Word does not mean what It says has a low view of God. Could not the One Who created the foundations of Heaven and earth; the One Who has the keys to death and Hades; the One Who forever rules and reigns Supreme and Sovereign over all; the One Who is the Uncreated Creator and never had a beginning and shall never have an end; the One Whose Eye sees all; the One in which all things live in and move and have their being (Acts 17:28); the One in Whom there is no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17); the One Who is Good, Faithful, Loving, Kind, Gentle, and Merciful; the One Who is Holy and Righteous; could not the One Who sustains all by His Will (Revelation 4:11) and is Perfect and Pure in all regards allow to have written in His Word exactly what He desired It to say? To believe the contrary is to indirectly say that man has more power than God.
God’s Word is exactly as He desired it to say. Had that not been the case, He has the Absolute Authority and Power to change It. For He is the Limitless One by Whom no man can thwart or overrule.
If man was in the wrong, God could have destroyed them or guided them or others to write what would be Truth. God would not allow His Word to be declared His Word throughout all the generations up until now with a Book that would have “inaccurate teachings” or “not mean what It says”. God’s Word is exactly as He desired it to say. Had that not been the case, He has the Absolute Authority and Power to change It. For He is the Limitless One by Whom no man can thwart or overrule.
God’s Word is encouraging, but it is also convicting. Anyone who is unwilling to be convicted and changed shall forever remain a slave. They shall be a slave to godlessness, their wants, and the world’s perceptions and ways.
We know that “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV). God’s Word is encouraging, but it is also convicting. Anyone who is unwilling to be convicted and changed shall forever remain a slave. They shall be a slave to godlessness, their wants, and the world’s perceptions and ways. They shall be as a boat tossed to-and-fro.
James 1:5-8 (NKJV) declares that “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, Who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
We can ask God for Wisdom, but first we must possess God and God must possess us by His Spirit. If we do not know God, then we cannot ask Him for wisdom. If we think we believe, yet we doubt Him continually and do not accept His Word, we shall be a double-minded man.
Stability can only come through a firm foundation in the bedrock of Truth. Anything else, such as human emotions, human perceptions, or human opinions, shall deviate us from knowing the One True, God (the Trinity) of the One, True Word (the Holy Bible).
Stability can only come through a firm foundation in the bedrock of Truth. Anything else, such as human emotions, human perceptions, or human opinions, shall deviate us from knowing the One True, God (the Trinity) of the One, True Word (the Holy Bible).
If Christ stands on the authority of Scripture, citing Scripture from the Old Testament to combat the Devil as He is tempted (Matthew 4:4), then surely the entirety of God’s Word is important and true.
Christ cites the Old Testament and tells us that ““It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God’”” (Matthew 4:4 ESV). If Christ stands on the authority of Scripture, citing Scripture from the Old Testament to combat the Devil as He is tempted, then surely the entirety of God’s Word is important and true. If it were not, Christ would have declared otherwise. Instead, He declares that “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will not pass away” (Matthew 24:35 ESV).
If we are going to believe in Jesus, we are going to believe what He says. If He says that the Word of God is true, then it is true; regardless of our opinion or self-created belief.
When Christ prayed to the Father in John 17, He asks the Father to “Sanctify them in the Truth; Your Word is Truth” (John 17:17 ESV). If we are going to believe in Jesus, we are going to believe what He says. If He says that the Word of God is true, then it is true; regardless of our opinion or self-created belief.
God does not care about our emotions when the Truth of His Word is brought forth. He does not care if we think differently from what He has already declared. For we know that “Every word of God proves true; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him” (Proverbs 30:5 ESV). God protects those who take refuge in Him. Those who take refuge in Him have chosen to believe in Him and take time to go to His Word.
True faith does not allow man’s ideology to override sound Theology. For anyone who denies God’s Word, denies God. Anyone who chooses to believe in Christ but not The Word shall have their name go unheard when God declares those who are written in the Book of Life.
True “faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ” (Romans 10:17 ESV). There is no other faith that saves than that which is by Grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9). True faith is repentant faith. True faith kneels before God and His Word. True faith does not allow man’s ideology to override sound Theology. For anyone who denies God’s Word, denies God. Anyone who chooses to believe in Christ but not The Word shall have their name go unheard when God declares those who are written in the Book of Life.
The Word of God can be tough and convicting. It can bring us to our knees in lamenting and weeping. It brings forth a strong Word against sin, yet a comforting Word that Christ desires to save.
The Word of God can be tough and convicting. It can bring us to our knees in lamenting and weeping. It brings forth a strong Word against sin, yet a comforting Word that Christ desires to save. For Christ to save, however, we must see the reason and need of us being saved. We must be humble enough to admit that we cannot save ourselves. It is only by believing in Him Who is the Word, the Way, the Truth, and the Life that we can be set free from sin.
“For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12 ESV). Why do must people reject God? Because they are weak. Even those perceived as strong in this life, shall be amongst the weakest in the next. Not in externals, but in the inner life. Anyone who neglects to accept their sin-stricken state (which we all have), shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. They are weak, and their weakness is their pride and selfishness.
Those who are made strong by God recognize their weakness through humility. They have the courage to allow reproof and chastisement to take place.
Those who are made strong by God recognize their weakness through humility. They have the courage to allow reproof and chastisement to take place. There will be times of conviction. There is a call to die to self, daily (Luke 9:23-24). Only the strong are able to enter into the peace and joy of the Holy Ghost. For the spiritually strong are those who have the courage to allow God’s Word to confront, convict, and change them. They are those who shall become strong in the Spirit of God.
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God will stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8 ESV). God’s Word shall never fail nor change. All things shall pass away, but what God’s Word has declared and has done shall forever be.
God cannot go back on His Word. To do so would reveal insecurities in God and a lack of confidence. God is not at all an unsure God ruling from the sky trying to figure out what must occur next. He is the One Who has seen the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. In Him resides all of time, creation, and dimensions. He alone is beyond all and above all, while His sustaining power continues to work through all.
God cannot go back on His Word. To do so would reveal insecurities in God and a lack of confidence. God is not at all an unsure God ruling from the sky trying to figure out what must occur next. He is the One Who has seen the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. In Him resides all of time, creation, and dimensions. He alone is beyond all and above all, while His sustaining power continues to work through all. What is, has been brought into being by God’s Word. Whatever is, whether it be in the physical, metaphysical, or abstract realm, it is as it is, so long as God is. Moral codes, laws of nature, characters, personalities, traits, forms, beings, entities, consequences, rewards, blessings, curses, locations; all things have been made by God and for God.
“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:16-18 NKJV).
God knows exactly what must be and what is, before it actually is. He declares what is, based upon His Nature. He is the Holy, Perfect, Immutable One Who has no limits. He is the Light that reveals to man his sin by way of His Word and Truth.
May we allow God’s Word to take place within. There will be times when we are crucified, internally. There are things that God shall reveal to us that must go and we are in need of changing. It is by God’s Love, however, that He convicts us. For we know that God disciplines those whom He loves (Proverbs 3:12, Hebrews 12:6).
Therefore, let us be as David and declare that “I have stored up Your Word in my heart, that I might not sin against You” (Psalm 119:11 ESV). May we “put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:21-22 ESV). For ““blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep It!”” (Luke 11:28 NKJV).
May we listen to the Word, keep close to the Word, and do what It says. If we do not, our faith shall be one that is lukewarm and easily deceived.
May we listen to the Word, keep close to the Word, and do what It says. If we do not, our faith shall be one that is lukewarm and easily deceived.
Will we trust ourselves? We, who continually shift in emotion, response, character, mindset, and perception, over the Truth of God's Word?
Will we trust ourselves? We, who continually shift in emotion, response, character, mindset, and perception, over the Truth of God's Word? May we do our best to present ourselves “to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth” (2 Timothy 2:15 ESV).
PRAYER
Triune God, You are the God of Truth. You alone are the Reason for all things. There is nothing like You. In You, is True Life. By You we can receive everlasting Life. O God, draw us to Your Word. Help us to see the power and authority of Your Word. What You have said, You mean. God, may we believe in Your promises. Lead us to repentance of our sins and true belief in Christ. Help us to go to Your Word and to meditate on It. Give us the strength to do It, O God. For we need Your Spirit to guide us into all Truth. We ask that You would sanctify us in Truth. Your Word is Truth, God. We know that Your Word does not return to You void. Keep us from deception and darkness. May we hide under the shadow of Your Wing as we wield the Light and are wielded by You Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. O God, change and transform us, we pray. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Lance VanTine