Text: Psalm 119:57-80, Genesis 1:3, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Isaiah 55:10-11
A part of me wants there to be more to the creation story than God speaking the world into existence. It just seems way too easy, doesn’t it? Life as we know it is more complicated than this. No one talks stars into shining or commands seas with a word.
But God. He does.
I read Genesis 1:3 and I want more, not because the story isn’t incredible enough but because it’s too incredible. The words of those familiar chapters pass through my lips but they don’t quite make past the door to my brain. It turns out even the story of creation is occasion for me to pray, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24)
And just when I start to get it, when the impossible begins to compute, I remember this: The voice whose power created All Things from nothing? That is the voice Who speaks into my heart and makes it new. And my mind is blown all over again.
This leather book we hold in our hands (or, since it is 2014, this sacred text we read on our screens) is full of God-breathed promises, words that hold the same power as those that formed earth and sky, that created giraffes and dandelions and snowflakes and volcanoes. We hold that power in our hands. We drink daily from that Well of life.
And did you know it isn’t just in creating and recreating where the power of God’s Word shines? It is in the healing and the redeeming, too; in the teaching of truth and the giving of grace. When God speaks, His words do what He purposes them to do. God’s Word will not fail. It accomplishes what He intends, every single time.
God’s Word and His power are inextricably linked.
What He says is true.
What He promises will be.
Think of it as a love letter or a contract or both, but think of it as unbreakable. That is what it is.
I am so thankful for this community of believing women who strive together in the reading and knowing of His truth. Knowing His word won’t return void is the freedom my controlling self rests in because I know the truth of His word are life. Resting in this truth today:-)
do you have the bible app, if not download it and do the plan one minute apologist- doubting towards faith. it’s life changing. doubt towards Him, ask him to help you and guide you closer. don’t let the doubt take you farther away.
I’m struggling with believing too. My dad has several terminal health problems and as he continues to give God glory for healing I certain areas I find myself thinking, did God really heal that? It is my dad just confused again? It’s very frustrating in my faith because I want to believe it, but yet satan continues to make me question the power of God. I know in my mind God can heal him, but I still have doubts. I don’t like to see this side of me when hard times come I want to have faith to believe God will provide. I know he can yet something deep inside still questions IF he will.
do you have the bible app, if not download it and do the plan one minute apologist- doubting towards faith. it’s life changing. doubt towards Him, ask him to help you and guide you closer. don’t let the doubt take you farther away.
Randomly came across this comment and had to stop in my tracks to respond. I see that ten months have passed and only God knows what all has transpired in that time. The reason I have to speak up is because I can relate to you so much. I have a daughter who was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease at age 5. She turns 13 next week. We have dealt with the whole gamut of emotions in 8 years. I’d be lying if I said I just accepted it with a positive “can do” attitude. There’s so much I could share.
But the one thing I wanted to emphasize is that at some point I had to shift my focus from trying to believe He’d do a miracle, to learning to trust wholeheartedly in WHO HE IS. Because we drive ourselves crazy trying to figure out the “whys” in life.
We’ll never know the answers this side of heaven. But trust? Oh, that has brought the most beautiful freedom! To be able to say: “Lord, I don’t understand the how’s & why’s, but I do understand your nature and your character as my Good Father. That You’re sovereign and your plans exceed my smallness. I trust Your greatness.” Everything in life becomes bearable and small with Our Maker holding our hand, through every mountaintop victory and valley low. Because His presence is always enough.
I pray this message finds you wherever you are in the world and that you’ve seen Him carry you these 10 months.