The Word of the Father

In Genesis, chapter 1, are the "and God said" statements, most of which are followed shortly thereafter by "and it was so," or some equivalent. In other words, things came into existence when God spoke. The word of God gave life.

I love these statements. I think it is because God's power is so evident in them….and so simply stated. God spoke. Suddenly there was light where there once was darkness. God spoke. Universes were created. God spoke. There was life. All simply created by the power of the word of God; or should that be all simply created by the power of THE WORD of God? Do you see that? Do you understand what kind of power there was in the WORD of God? What power and energy there was that brought things from absolutely nothing into existence? Can we even comprehend that kind of power? Not really.

Often, what men cannot comprehend, men reject. Sometimes men reject God on the basis that He doesn't fit into their limited field of vision and understanding. This is called trusting in our own understanding. What we don't understand, we don't trust. If we DO understand it, we will trust it. But only if it makes sense to US!

And as God falls into the category of what we don't understand, then we don't trust Him. We might not admit that openly, but it will show in our actions and our words.

To me, that is the silliest (and most dangerous) thing anyone could think! Of course, we cannot comprehend God, for we are not God ourselves. Only God could fully comprehend God.

Yet, our God, calls Himself our Father (to those of us who are His children and trust in Him just as a young child does his Dad), and cares about us enough to reveal bits of Himself to us. His Word tells us so much about Him. That's what His Word was meant to do: to reveal God to man, to reveal the Father to the sons. The Word is an amazing gift from a loving Father to His sons. He is not a distant, unreachable Father. We may be children who do not comprehend ALL that our parents comprehend, but we can tell anyone what our parents are like. We know their character. We know whether they are honorable or not. We know what angers them and what makes them happy. Our parents, if normal at all, are not unreachable to us.

How much more reachable is the Father who created us; Who Himself gave us life and breath?

Yet many reject Him. They reject the Father, and they reject the Son whom the Father sent. What tremendous pride is required for man to reject God, or anything of God. The pride of logical thinking, the pride of intelligent minds, pride that sets itself above God, all the while disclaiming that it does. For pride blinds the logical mind from seeing TRUTH.

Am I saying that we have to be illogical to trust in God? No, there is nothing illogical in God, or in trusting God. But the things of God MUST be beyond our limited powers of logic and reasoning or else we ourselves would be God. But we are not God, and yet some won't accept the vast difference between us and God.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9)

This is what God tells man through His prophet Isaiah. And just before He spoke those words, He spoke this:

"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." (Isaiah 55:7-8)

Now, one would think that this would be enough. To hear from God Himself that we are not to lean towards our own understanding for this is only unrighteousness in action; and that we are to turn towards God and His ways instead. Yet, there are those who still reject what makes no sense to them; sadly, even to their death-bed.

Hear the words of Jesus, just prior to His arrest and crucifixion, as He speaks to the Father:

"I have manifested thy name [the name of God the Father] unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world [the 12 disicples]: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me." (John 17:6-8)

Many intelligent people reject Jesus, saying that Jesus detracts from God the Father, and yet, these words, and so many others in the Bible, tell us that Jesus spoke only the words that He heard from His Father: GOD. He came to glorify God, to reveal the Father to men. But men reject ted Him. They rejected His words. They rejected THE WORD OF GOD; and in doing so, they reject God the Father as well.

It is an amazing thing that 12 unlearned men, mostly poor fishermen, men that the world would look down upon as not being educated enough, or intelligent enough, or successful enough….are the ones that God, creator of the universes, giver of life to every living thing on earth, chose to spread HIS WORD around the world. All because they believed what other intelligent men would call foolishness: that Jesus Christ WAS the Messiah, WAS the Son of God, and therefore sent from God Himself, and that the power of God (the same power that created everything by merely speaking THE WORD!) raised Jesus from the dead.

They received THE WORD of the Father. And for that they have received the promise of THE WORD….life everlasting.

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." (I Corinthians 1:18)