There is no doubt that it is in proper
understanding and application of the word of God that we are able to decipher
who we are. No disposition or assignment, no matter how major, would describe
who God made us to be. God can use anyone for any service He decides to use
them for at any point in time and make them right for the assignment if they
yielded to Him; the word of God is unchangeable and also bigger than any
assignment, thing or persons. Living according to the truth of God is therefore
more profitable to us than we can ever imagine. Nobody can ever achieve the
ultimate of what they have born to do if they do not operate as the persons
they were made to be. Such persons only just struggle through life, sometimes
perceiving themselves as misfits and never able to attain to their predestined heights
of success. We are all written into God’s word wherein He also completed all He
will ever do.
John 19: 30 “When
Jesus had tasted it, he said, it is finished! Then he bowed his head and
released his spirit.”
Our part is to reach deep into
the treasure chest that is His word and take the treasure that is ours so we
can then flourish as we have been destined to. Every believer is made complete
in His word. Power accompanies revelation of the word of God which brings the
word to pass. Jesus said His word is Spirit and Life; it is living hence its
ability to bring life to dead things. God’s word and His Spirit are one and the
same so that to be guided by His Spirit is allowing one’s self to be guided by
His word. This is the reason Jesus had to leave for the fullness of God to be
able to come and indwell us in the person of the Holy Spirit; this is the
reason we are able to live a life that is pleasing to God. Living a life that
pleases God is beneficial to us because we are then able to access and enjoy
the benefits that belong to God’s children. As we are led by His word/Spirit,
we are bound to please God; walking in His fullness and the path of love. God
is love, it takes walking by the Spirit to express the love that God is. Also,
the Holy Spirit who fully understands the mind of God, will ensure that we end
up in heaven.
Romans 8: 14 “For
all who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.”
No believer can succeed outside
the Holy Spirit. Human effort fails at some point and makes Christianity
tedious. Human effort, at its very best can only make one nice or good but the Holy
Spirit enables us please God so that we then please men; and because of Him,
even our enemies are compelled to be at peace with us. Such is the power in the
word of God simple as it appears to be. As long as one is dependent on the word
of God, when they stumble, don’t rejoice because they will not fall; they only
“stoop to conquer.” It is a Spirit led life.
2 Corinthians 3: 16
- 18 “But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. For the
Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of
the Lord – who is the Spirit-and makes us more and more like Him as we are
changed into His glorious image.”
However, we must learn to
approach the word of God with openness and sincerity. If we approach God’s word
with any ill-motive and/or agenda, we would only get a twisted understanding
and not the truth or mind of God. Man’s heart is so evil and has great
potential to be so warped that it can cause good to appear evil and twist truth
such that it appears to support evil. No wonder God says to be carnally minded
is death. A person whose life is built on what is good by their mind, no matter
how good they are, can be dangerously evil. When we turn to God’s word, we must
do so honestly that the veil may be removed, for only then will we understand
God’s word and then see Him therein and become more like Him, revealing His
glory.
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