The Power Of The Word

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord:  "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31

             "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."  John  15:3

     The Word of God is compared to water for three distinct purposes.  When the Bible speaks of water for drinking purposes it refers to regeneration through the Spirit (John 3:5).  When used as a figure of floods and torrents, it signifies the judgments of God (2 Peter 3:6).  Water used for cleansing and washing points to the sanctifying power of the Word of God.

     Jesus prayed,  "Sanctify them through thy truth:  thy word is truth"  (John 17:17).  The Church is cleansed by the "washing of water by the Word."  No believer can be clean without daily "bathing" in the Word of God.  Just reverently reading the Bible daily will be a sanctifying experience, even though you may not even remember much of what you have read.  Some people have very poor memories.  A man once complained:  "I might as well stop reading the Bible for I get so little out of it and remember so little afterwards."  Is this your trouble?  Then liten to the little story of a simple Hindu convert.  A missionary diligently tried to teach her the Word of God daily, and become greatly discouraged because her new convert was so slow in remembering what she had been taught.  One day she complained,  "I guess it's no use trying to teach you the Word, you seem to forget all I tell you about the Bible.  Your mind seems like a sieve.  As fast I pour the water in, it runs out again."  The reply of the poor woman reveals a great truth.  Said she,  "Yes, I realize my mind is like a sieve.  I do forget so much, but when you pour water through a sieve it makes the sieve clean, even though it seems to retain none of it.  I am sorry I forget so much, but please don't stop pouring the Word into me.  It makes my heart and mind feel so clean afterwards.  The water is not wasted."

     It is not how much Scripture you can memorize, but rather how "much" it does to you.

                                                                  Who would not love the Bible,
                                                                       So beautiful and wise?
                                                                   It cleanses and refreshes,
                                                                        And points us to the skies.
                                                                                                    - E. Hood

"The vigor of our spiritual life will be in proportion to the place held by the Word in our life and thoughts."
                                                                                                                                        - G. Mueller

"Bread For Each Day"