Okay. Good morning. We are going to continue the reflection we started yesterday, the Meditation Moment. We were talking about the Word, the importance of the Word in our lives, how Jesus was the Word made flesh and that to know the mind of God, like Paul admonished us to, we need to know God's Word. And I'm going to go over a few more verses here. this next one is from 2 Peter 1:4. It says,
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature.
So God's Word is not just pretty pictures. It's not just pretty sayings. There are actually promises there that can help us to take on the Divine Nature, to become more than the fleshly human being that we are, and become more like Christ, more like God. And so, there are lots of promises there and we can appropriate those promises. And we can become something that we are not. We can become more like Christ. And He can be manifested in us as we appropriate those promises, and as we accept His Word and live it and let it change us and make our minds and hearts like His.
The next verse is from Joshua 1:8. It's one of my favorites. It says,
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night, that thou may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall have good success.
This is just like in Psalm 1,
His delight is in the law of the Lord and in His law does he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.
It's the same principle here, that this meditating on God's Word is going to make our lives prosperous, fruitful. (Bom dia) And so, God's Word has a beautiful effect on us, if we'll spend time meditating upon it.
We are told that the first commandment is to love God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind. So the mind comes into that, into loving God with our mind. Paul also tells us to,
Casting down imaginations, and high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. [1]
How can we bring our thoughts to the obedience of Christ if we don't even know what Christ's mind is like, if we don't even know His words. You see, His words give us discernment and this is what the next verse we're going to go over talks about. It says, Hebrews 4:12,
For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
God's Word gives us discernment. You see, Jesus said,
If you continue in My Word, then are you My disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [2]
You see, God's Word is truth. In John 17:17 Jesus said,
Thy Word is truth.
God's Word is truth. So, He also said,
I am the way, the truth, and the life. [3]
So, we have the truth as Christians. We have the Word of God and the Word of God is the truth. We have an objective truth. We have a way to measure right and wrong, whether it is according to God's Word, and not the letter of the Word, but the Spirit of the Word, line upon line, here a little, and there a little. [4] We need to know, that's why Paul said to,
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth. [5]
Not wrongly dividing it. Not self-righteously dividing it. But rightly dividing it. And that's what Christ went around and did. He rightly divided the Word of truth. He showed love was more important than the letter. More important than the law was love. So that's how we divide it, God's Word, the truth, is with the Spirit of love. But the truth is there.
Notes:
[1] 2Corinthians 10:5
[2] John 8:31-32
[3] John 14:6
[4] Isaiah 28:10
[5] 2Timothy 2:15
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