The living nature of the Scriptures may be something that some of us haven’t quite experienced yet.
I think a person has to be made ready for that. I also think that when & how this happens is up to God. But when it does, and a person begins to be in that flow…whether but for a few verses, a Bible study session or for most of the time, that flow becomes peace like a river.
Because the Lord changes not, and His Word endures forever, if He said it in ages & times past, isn’t He still saying it today? I don’t point this out to tout Old Testament law in any way, but rather to emphasize the real-time element to the words of the Lord. If you can apprehend that GOD is saying this NOW, as you read it, those words will beckon you like never before. The hardness of the letter, that sealed up the Life, dissolves completely in that moment. In that moment, everything else fades into the background. It is thrilling. You realize that Jesus is reaching out & touching you.
In the flesh, when someone speaks to you, some kind of response is elicited from you. It may be a non-response, in that you don’t see a reason to answer or to take an action. But that is still a response. And/or the information imparted to you can change your perspective and maybe your decisions.
So when this kind of living dialogue is shared with you by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father God who loves you…wow…
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Old Testament figures come alive. You become privy to His conversations with or about them as though you were/are present. In a sense you are. The Ancient of Days becomes God Right Now. The integrity & faithfulness expressed by the Lord then, pertains to you today. Apprehend that.
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I write about this today, because I have been having this kind of real-time experience lately. In an unexpected time of refreshing, this Word came alive to me:
“Thus saith the LORD…that frustrateth the tokens of the liars…”
Amen.
“Thus saith the LORD…that confirmeth the word of His servant…”
Amen.
“Thus saith the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus…to subdue nations before him…”
Amen.
“Thus saith the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus…I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.”
Amen. (Isaiah 44: 25,26 & 45: 1,2)
AMEN to all these things, by the word of the Lord, unto our President, unto the eternal purposes of God, His kingdom and the drawing of all men unto our incomparable Lord Jesus.
