All In Daily Devotional March 8: God’s Word is Alive

 First Redeemer Church

God’s Word is Alive

 

 

“So My word that comes from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.” 

Isaiah 55:11

 

 

God is directly involved with His Word because it is His. His Spirit works through it to accomplish what only He can. The Bible does not return empty. It is alive and active for His purpose and always prospers. 

 

We are not still enough to realize what we behold. We handle it flippantly and forget its power.  We pick what we want from it and dictate how we think it should be used in our lives. We walk away, forgetting what it says, and do not allow what we find there to change us at all.

 

Oh, how we need to rest and remember. 

 

We need God’s life-giving and Spirit-filled words daily. We are too content to live parched lives and toil in yesterday’s food when God gives fresh manna. He faithfully meets us in the pages because His Word is alive. There we find His presence waiting every single time.   

 

The Bible is unlike any other. 

It is a good and perfect gift. 

It is a power beyond our own.

 

It beckons faith and brings crops only God can sprout. It cuts the heart and fosters change.  Through it, God cultivates from the inside out in the exact way we need, and in the very moment we need it. Over and over, the Bible drives us to His feet with nothing to offer but a hallelujah. How could it be anything other than alive?  

 

God is directly connected to His Word, and His words bear witness. God has given us a garden to walk in. Allow His words room to blossom. We will look a little more like Him every time we stroll with Him there. 

 

To where else can we run? 

Who else holds the words of life?

 

We’re All In. 

 

 

 

 

 

o   God, we praise You for meeting us faithfully in Your Word every time we come running.

o   Forgive us for walking away and forgetting too quickly Your good and faithful work in our lives.

o   Help us depend on Your Word daily and know that You have given us all we need wherever we are and for whatever is ahead. 

o   We pray Your Word would be mighty in us, the church, community, and the world and that You would accomplish what only You can through it.