The Word of His Power Part II - Create

All of the power at God’s disposal is under the authority of the Word that proceeds from His mouth.  What He does is governed by what He declares.  His Word initiates His work.  It is the Word of the Lord that creates and sets in motion the things that He will do.  This is why so often we miss what God is doing - we are seeking His hand when we should be hearing what He says.  By watching for His hand, we cannot help but misinterpret what we see because we do not have the proper context of His initiating Word.

Disregarding God’s mouth and, instead, desperately praying for Him to move reminds me of a daily occurrence at our house.  Our two pugs receive their dinner every evening at 5pm.  This has been the case since they were puppies six years ago, and it rarely varies.  And yet, also invariably, around 3:00 or 3:30pm  they will approach one of us and begin pawing at our hands and feet, groaning, whimpering, rolling their eyes and trying to exercise mind-control over us by looking for all intents as if we have forgotten to feed them for days!  I’ve discovered that whispering to dogs isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  Or maybe I’m just not whispering the right thing. . .

At any rate, the agreed upon arrangement has always been that we will see to their nutritional needs at the appropriate times throughout the day.  Indeed we have kept up our end of the deal and yet, strangely enough, two hours before dinnertime every day they come together in conspired force seeking to “move our hand” of provision.  It seems that our word just isn’t good enough for them.

Are we any different at times?  We become anxious and worried about our lives, wondering what we will eat, what we will drink, what we will wear; all the while not remembering that God’s Word has declared our “Heavenly Father knows that we need all these things.”  We become discontented, fretful and stressed over the uncertainties of life, forgetting the Word that instructs: “cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”  Occasionally we may find ourselves disconcerted at the thought that our lives might end up being insignificant and of no eternal consequence, missing completely God’s promises that: “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” and “Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.”

And here is the real issue: we tend to treat God’s Word like our own words; something uttered in a moment in time and space that may or may not have any bearing on people, things or events as they unfold later on in time and space.  We know that our words can become invalid, influenced, irrelevant, distorted, diminished, expedited, complicated by the circumstances native to the natural realm in which we live.  Words can change their import or even their core meaning over time.  We’ve come to understand words as subjective, relative and dependent upon context and conditions. 

But God’s Word could not be more different than our words.  In the very moment when God speaks forth a Word from His mouth, a living thing is created - something alive with the very Life of God is initiated and set in motion.  In Isaiah 48, God gives us insight into the nature of His Word.  He says in verse 3, “I declared the former things long ago and they went forth from My mouth. . .”  Again He says in verse 6, “I proclaim to you new things from this time, even hidden things which you have not known.”  Then in verse 7 He says, “They are created now. . .” (emphasis added)- this is the same word that is used in Genesis 1:1 when God created the heavens and the earth.

When God speaks, the living thing created is eternal: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”  When God speaks, the living thing created is eternally purposeful and successful: “So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” 

Pastor Scott

"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all." (2 Cor 13:14)