Let’s
read the Word again, but before I do, let me share something with you
first.
When I
read the Word of God, I believe what God says.
I may not
have full revelation, but I believe what I read, when I read the Word of
God.
Every
time I read the Word, God changes me.
- He makes me feel good and He reveals me as I am.
- He reveals who I am when I am in the flesh and He reveals who I am when I trust in the blood of Christ for my propitiation.
- God encourages me and enlightens me and empowers me.
- There’s times when I read the Word that I could walk on water and there’s times when God says to me, “you vain and little man”.
- God’s Word proves me and improves me, changes me and reveals me.
- It is by His Word that I can even know who I should be, why I should be it, when I should get on to it, where I should do it and how to do it.
- It is the Word of God that makes me and sometimes breaks me, because I have stopped trying to get out of it what is convenient for me and I have chosen rather to make it my gospel.
I believe
it, trust it, rely on it, align myself with it, have faith in it, and there is
not one word in it that I would even consider changing, because I have come to
believe it is the living Word of God.
I know
that in the pursuit of knowing God, I will be revealed.
I have
learned to accept God’s chastisement, God’s pruning, God’s
purging, God’s cleansing, God’s eliminating, God’s eradicating and God’s
liquidating.
I fully
accept the outcome of pursuing a deeper and holier life, knowing that in that
pursuit, the pathway is not paved with gold and fleece only, but that God may
allow me to go through some things that I find no particular personal
inclination to, nor do I find pleasure in, nor would I choose it.
I
understand, believe and teach, that God’s grace is sufficient.
Excerpt from God Thinking LII - Fruitless - by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014
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