Isaiah 45:12
“It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.”
Isaiah 45:12 NIV
God wants a Creator/creature distinction between us. We can still relate with each other, talk, and have fun. But we must not forget there is a difference. We have limitations while God does not. Thus says the Lord. His Words are powerful. Look at what God claims for Himself. He says that He made the earth. That He created man. That His hands stretched out the heavens. He’s going to stir righteousness in Cyrus. He’s going to make his ways level. But do you know how God does that, through His Word. God here asserts that He had made all things, doubtless with a view to show that He was able to hear their cry, and to grant an answer to their requests. His agency was visible everywhere, alike in forming and sustaining all things, and in raising up for them a deliverer. They might, therefore, go before Him with confidence, and spread out all their needs. God’s Word is active in a way ours are not. His helpful example is that if I say let there be light in a dark room nothing happens unless it’s followed by the action of flipping a switch. My words are not an action. But God’s Words are different. He says let there be light and there is light. His Words are active they in themselves bring the result. There is no further action needed to make them true or active. His Word is living because it is the very essence of God. We even see Jesus referred to as the Word in the Gospel of John. We cannot separate God from His Word. God’s Word carries the authority of God Himself. Since God is our highest authority. And since God and His Word cannot be separated from each other, we must agree that God’s Word is Our Highest Authority. I want to encourage you to trust scripture is God’s Word is by trusting in God’s faithfulness. Would a faithful God who loves His people and wants us to know Him allow us to have incomplete or wrong information about Him for all of History? We should trust God enough to believe He gives us exactly what we need to know Him!!
Father thank You for this day and for the precious promises found in Your Word. Lord open the windows of heaven and let Your abundant blessings flow over my friend and family today. Lord how beautifully Your Word has been fulfilled in so many lives, and through all the ages of time. Lord may we recognize how foolish it is to trust in anything else but your presence in our lives. Lord use my friend to be the salt and light of Your Word to all today. Daddy we love You amen. Be a blessing. Love ya !!
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