The Word is out
There's a powerful dynamism to God's sayings
Have you ever been reading, preaching or teaching the Word of God and all of a sudden had illumination not previously seen by you?
That’s because there is a dynamic to the Word of God that transcends the ordinariness of mere words.
Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
God’s Word shines direction.
See Psalm 19:8-11.
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward.
There’s no greater place to be than in the Word of God.
Paul likens it to looking in the mirror. We see there the reflection of Jesus on our own countenance. Holiness. Purity. Righteousness. Paul says looking away we can forget who we are, but looking back we see Him in us again.
We are being changed from one glory to another, Paul tells us. The glory of the Old Covenant to the New. Written in better promises.
The glory of the Old Covenant was so great that when Moses stood before God in His Presence to receive the Ten Commandments written on stone, his face shone so brightly that, when he came down from Sinai the people of Israel could not bear to look on his face and he had to be veiled.
Old and new glory
Their sin was exposed by the glory of God in Moses’ face. Death was seen on them and exposed by the glory of the light of the Word. Think about this, from 2 Corinthians 3:7-9.
“But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.”
The ministry of condemnation was the Law in the Old Testament. The Ministry of Righteousness is the New. The glory of the New Covenant outshines the Old. See at 2 Corinthians 3::17-18.
“Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
The glory of the Lord. In the mirror of the Word.
There, then, is our refreshing. There is our changing. There is our restoration.
There is the Word’s dynamic.