"For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12, Amplified Bible)
Did you really read this, or did you just think, "Oh no, he's at it again?" The Word of God is, "active, operative, energizing, and effective." Got that? The Word of God deals with, as no one and nothing else can, "the deepest parts of our nature, exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging...thoughts and purposes...." Could this be the main reason that the majority of professing Christians avoid the, "God-Breathed," Word? Who really wants, "exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes...."?
Yet consider again for just a moment the powerful reality in the Word of God---
"active, operative, energizing, and effect,..exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging...thoughts and purposes...." I can think of no greater work of Jesus Christ in my life. I can think of nothing I need more daily, moment by moment than Jesus Christ in me, "active, operative, energizing, and effective," working in, "the deepest parts of [my] nature, exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes [my] heart." Furthermore, can you see today the great gift of the Holy Spirit here? What equipping of a servant of Jesus Christ. You may not be as those whom you admire, gifted, ability to speak well, etc. But if you have our text working in you, you are sufficient for life.
Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You so much for this great gift of the Spirit. Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
