The Word of His Power Part IV - Sustain

When God speaks, a living thing is created and set in motion.  And once His word has been released in time and space, there certainly will be a “suddenly” when He is going to act and it will come to pass!  However, in the “time” that intervenes between His speaking and His suddenly, there are a number of other significant activities relative to His word which also take place.  In order for us to be postured properly for His word to find full expression in us, we need to understand and actively engage in these other, intervening aspects of “the word of His power.”

One of these important aspects of God’s word, which largely escapes our notice on a regular basis, is the dynamic of its sustaining power.  The Bible teaches us that the Lord Jesus Christ “upholds all things by the word of His power.”  This means that everything which is created (no exceptions) exists solely by His Word.  Paul states it this way: “in Him we live and move and exist (or have our being)” and “in Him all things hold together.”

The word of God is all around us, whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.  We can be looking right at it and not even see it.  We can be listening to the sound of it and not even hear it.  We can experience the nearness of it and not even feel it.  And yet, all of the created order around us radiates, resounds and responds to God’s word.  The universe unfolds and expands at the speed of light by His word.  Protons, neutrons and electrons revolve wildly under the control of His word.  Birds find food for their young and animals give birth in the forest with no other explanation or enablement than the sustaining word of God. 

The next heartbeat, the next breath, the next word about to roll-off the tongue are all known by God before they ever occur, because they exist by the word of His power.  This is astonishing when we consider that the curses shouted at the foot of the cross were uttered by tongues sustained by God’s word.  The hands that roughly pounded the nails existed by the word of God.  The sin-infected lives of every man, woman and child ever to walk the earth, and the reason why Christ was crucified, are held together by the sustaining word of God!

“He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”  It is almost impossible for us to grasp this truth.  The God of the universe maintains it, upholds it and sustains it by His own word, knowing full well that man will continue to “suppress the truth” in their unrighteousness.  While His word sustains and guarantees our existence, man continues to deny His.  This is part of what it means to “acknowledge Him in all our ways.”  Embracing His word involves the perpetual recognition that our entire being and existence is wholly dependent upon “the word of His power.”

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)