NOV 8

John 5:39
Memorise Romans 15:4
“…that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope”

Words have power. They can influence men, alter lives, sway our emotions and even change the course of history. However, for all the weird and wonderful things that the words of men can do, they are limited in that they can only influence events in this present life. With regards to our eternal life, only the Word of our Eternal God can make a difference. This is the one thing that every human soul on Earth needs - the Living Word of God. We need Him, that we may have eternal life, and we can only be forgiven through believing in Jesus (the Living Word) as Lord and Saviour as revealed to us in His Word the Bible (the written Word). That is why Jesus instructed His disciples in John 5:39 to “search the scriptures (written Word), for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me (the Living Word)”.

The concept of trust as taught in the Bible is a very important one. To merely acknowledge factual accuracy is NOT trust as taught in Scripture. Biblically speaking, trust involves a deep conviction that something is correct and making changes to ourselves and the way we live in accordance to that. Therefore, someone can say that he is a sinner, but may not feel the need to change his life or behavior in any way. He merely believes that he is not perfect but is blissfully unaware of his state of condemnation. A simple way to know if we have truly trusted in anything that the Bible has said is to see if our lives have been transformed by it.

The most fundamental truth we can ever learn from the Bible is that we are saved by trusting in Jesus and we ought to ask ourselves how this truth has impacted our lives.

Sunday after Sunday Christians go to church to hear God’s Word being preached. Pretty soon, some believers seem to take the marvelous truths of God’s Word and even the Gospel of the Lord Jesus for granted and have little or no reaction to hearing the Word. It would seem that they have lost their first love. It’s tragic that we would become numb to something as wonderful as our salvation when it should cause us to be overjoyed every day. Pray that the Holy Spirit will keep the flame of the Gospel burning in our hearts always.

Thought: To be nonchalant about God’s Word is to be apathetic about what Jesus has done for us.
Prayer: O Lord, remind me of the great sacrifice that the Living Word made for me that I may never treat His written Word with indifference.