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CLEANSING BY GOD’S WORD
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6
Psalm 119:9
James 1:21-25
“…receive with meekness
the engrafted word…”
CLEANSING BY GOD’S WORD
There are questions in life that are difficult to answer. Man’s mind is limited and finite. No knowledge can fully give the right answer to many tough questions. Although science tries to answer everything, and people can ask for the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), no answer has ever solved the questions of life and death, except the Word of God.
The “How”: Indeed, how can a young man, full of vigour and vitality, but born with a default system of sin, be forgiven? “…Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good…Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Ps 53:1, 3). So how? The psalmist tells us “by taking heed.” To take heed is to observe and obey!
The “What”: Believers must take heed of God’s Word. It shows that “not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost” (Titus 3:5). The Word of the Lord will be used by the Spirit of God to reveal man’s sinful and savage way of living.
There is only one way for a young man to be cleansed. The psalmist does not give any other option. He declares that the Word of God is the only instrument; no other! He does not imply there is another aside from the Word. He simply points to the Word of God. Nothing else!
Today’s immoral and indifferent lifestyles cannot be corrected by man’s inventions and discoveries. Dear reader, there is only one way of cleansing and one agent of cleansing: “taking heed thereto according to thy word.” Do not try other ways. You will surely fail! A time-tested, perfectly designed, and divine quality control has checked it!
THOUGHT: Am I cleansed pure and white by taking heed of God’s Word?
PRAYER: Father, Thou who knowest the impurities of man, cleanse me white as snow, worthy to be with Thee whenever that may be.