Word for Today:  April 2

God is Practical.

We must come to the place of absolute faith in the Word of God.  The key word is ABSOLUTE.   There is a realm of believing that few have entered.  It is a place of surety.  It is a place of total confidence.  It is a place of resolve.  It is a place of determination.  It is relentless.  It is absolute.  It is immutable.  It is fixed.  It is changeless.  This is the God-Kind of faith.  This level of faith is essential for the perfect working of the perfect Word.    Since the Word is ABSOLUTE TRUTH we must approach Absolute Truth with ABSOLUTE FAITH.  Anything less than absolute faith is partial faith.  Partial faith is not a “finished faith” or a “completed faith.”  Jesus is the Author and Finisher (Completer) of our faith.

There is a practical application of the Word of God.  God does not tell us to do things that we cannot do…  He does not instruct us to keep things we cannot keep.  He does not command us to accomplish anything we cannot accomplish…  God is not only Spiritual… He is practical…  He fixes it so that Spiritual Principles will work in a real and practical world.  To work the Word is not impractical.  To make practical application of the Word is not being “super-spiritual.”  God has given us the Word so that we might apply the Word to real, physical, and natural life situations.

There is also a much broader dimension of the Word than most people realize.  The Word of God is not just the Bible.  The Bible is the written document that is the written Word of God but the Word of God existed before there was a written document called the Holy Bible.  John writes that “in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God…”   God’s Word transcends the Bible.   God’s Word was existent before there was a Bible.  How can we know what God said if it is not written down for us to read and know?  We know what God said by knowing what God would say.  We know what God would say by knowing the Nature and Character of God.  God speaks in agreement with His Character.  If we know His Character, we will know what He will say or did say…  We know His Character by Revelation.

Thankfully, He chose to Reveal Himself to us.

Jesus is that Revelation

Word for Today:  April 1

His Life is a series of Divine Paradoxes.

Jesus Paid a Price.  A terrific Price… just to get help to you and me.

• He came down in order that we might get raised up.

• He became Mortal: (death-doomed) in order that we might become Immortal.

• He became Guilty so that we might be Guiltless.

• He became our sin, our sickness, our failure, our weakness so that we might have His Sinlessness, His health, His success, His strength.

• He became Poor so that we might become Rich.

• He forfeited Heaven’s Wealth in order to redeem us from the curse of poverty. (2 Cor. 8:9)

• He Hurt that we might be healed from hurt.

“Surely (most certainly!) He hath borne our griefs (malady, anxiety, calamity, disease, sickness, grief), and carried our sorrows (anguish, affliction, grief, pain, sorrow); yet we did esteem Him smitten (slaughtered, murdered, punished, stricken, killed) of God and afflicted (browbeaten, depressed, hurt, ravished).  But He was wounded (profaned, broken, defiled, prostituted, stained) for our transgressions (rebellion), He was bruised (beaten to pieces, broken in pieces, crushed, destroyed, oppressed, smitten)  for our iniquities (evil, fault, sin); the chastisement of our peace (health, prosperity, peace, welfare) was upon Him; and with His stripes (bruises, wounds, marks) we are healed (mended, cured, repaired, made whole).  (Isa. 53: 4-5)

• He Died that we might live. “I am come that you might have LIFE and that you might have it more abundantly…”  (John 10:10)

Jesus became what we are in order that we might be Who HE is….   (2Cor 5:21)