The Power of the Word of God.

 The power of God's word.  Do we think about it enough? Seriously. 

God's word spoke all we know into existence, only it was all we know unmarred when He spoke it into existence. Sin's degradation of all He created is obvious all around us. When we strip away sin's touch we can truly comprehend a bit of what God intended for us to see, to know. So much beauty is marred by the deadliness it can become. A beautiful stream can claim the lives of anyone through drowning. A mountain beautiful beyond imagining, deadly for the one falling. I don't have to go into the numerous ways that the beautiful is also deadly. Sin has put its mark of everything. Still, we mustn't neglect to comprehend the wonder of God's word which spoke into existence all around us and even, us. This is our God, this is the power of our God, the power of God's word and we have to think about the power of our awesome God so we don't become complacent in our existence as if we had a hand in our own creation, or the creation of the world and the things of the world. 

Excerpt  -  EJ Waggoner

'The Sabbath

The particular truth that must be held up in these last days is the Sabbath. We cannot believe it or preach it too strongly. It is there that the great breach has been made in the law of God. Have you ever stopped to consider why it is that Satan has concentrated all his forces on that fourth commandment? The root of the whole matter is found in Hebrews 1:10. In speaking to the Son, God the Father says, "And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands."

Then when we read, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork," we know that they simply manifest the power that there is in Christ. 

John says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made." John 1:1-3. Everything that is made is made by Christ.

In Psalm 111:2-4, I read, "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is honorable and glorious, and his righteousness endureth forever. He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion. 

Literally, and according to the Jewish rendering of the Hebrew, the first part of verse 4 would be, "He hath made a memorial for his wonderful work." What is His work? The heavens are His works and He laid the foundations of the earth. 

I wish you to note that those three words--righteousness, gracious, and compassion, are grouped together by the psalmist with these thoughts on the creation of the world. 

We shall see why, presently.

What is the memorial of God? "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Genesis 2:1-3. 

What then is the memorial? The seventh day, which is the Sabbath. It is the crowning day of the week, a memorial of creation completed--a creation in which the power of God's word was manifested, "for he spake and it was; He commanded and it stood fast."

If you will just keep the word of God and the power of the word of God before your minds, it seems that you cannot fail to see why it is that David groups grace, compassion, and righteousness all together with the works of God's hands.

It is the word of God that created the heavens and the earth. The Sabbath is the memorial which is given that we might commemorate and meditate upon the power of God's word.'