God Is Screaming At Us.

 

We need to WALK with God - for Him to become our lives. We need to recognize the Sabbath for what it truly is today for us.

 

A day to refocus any self-leaning thought and put it on God. A day to breathe in God through the gift of His word and His Word made flesh. 

 

God gave us this gift because He knew we'd need it! He knew that as time went on mankind would forgot all about putting Him first and they'd be completely consumed with evil unless He, through the Holy Spirit using men, wrote down what we'd need to know of Him.

 

We have to know the Bible backwards and forwards, inside and out, we HAVE to immerse ourselves in it! It is said of Christ Jesus Himself-

 

In beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with God and the WORD was God.

The Word became FLESH and dwelt among us!

 

The Word. 

 

Divine message.

Divine speech.

Divine reason.

Divine thought.

 

Christ was the WORD in beginning.

The WORD became flesh.

 

We have the words of the WORD that became flesh! Divine Word and divine words.

 

This beautiful WORD of words, is available to us readily! We are blessed not to be prevented from this Word of words.

 

Some people are literally murdered for having this Word of words to read!

 

For a single moment, contemplate yourself being murdered because you have a Bible.

 

Is the Bible more precious to you than your life? Would you toss it out your front door into a burning fire to prove that it means nothing to you? Or would you hold fast to the Bible and all it represents and go into the flame yourself?

 

THIS isn't a stupid question! This is a question we need to contemplate, that I need to contemplate, because if my Bible is not something sacred to me,  something I search daily, something I immerse myself in on the Sabbath day, then how can I say I truly want to walk with God as Enoch walked with God.  GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH His WORD of WORDs,  we cry out to hear His voice in our ears when all along He is screaming at us in a form that didn't exist for Enoch.

 

God is Screaming at us to hear Him! And we turn our backs on the Word, on our Bibles, labeling it too hard to really comprehend, too deep, too archaic, too this that and the other thing. We say it's too boring, not exciting enough. And yet the words within it give us life!  We don't have an Apostle knocking on our door asking to come inside to talk with us and share the good news of salvation with us. We have several APOSTLES words available to us! They can talk to us! And when we get confused by what we read we can pray for understanding and pray deeply! Not halfheartedly, not a mere little prayer and then go about our business but a prayer long and heartfelt from a place within us that longs to WALK WITH GOD!

 

The people in the Apostle's day would hear the spoken word and repeat it so often to others that they memorized it. The words weren't written first that came later.  In fact the earliest a book in the New Testament was written was 48AD that's 15 years after Christ died!  For 15 years people who came to Christ only did so by the word they heard spoken. They would hunger to get together on the Sabbath to hear the words of the Apostles, knowing they'd been with Christ, knowing they knew the Words Christ spoke, and that the Holy Spirit was speaking through them right then. The same Holy Spirit they were being Baptized with, which set their hearts afire with a zeal for Christ, the Messiah, Jesus their Redeemer. 

 

The reality of a HEAVENLY HOME was once more being brought home to people! People lived their day to day lives out, just like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph with the belief their home was not of this world but a heavenly home.  WE too MUST make our Heavenly Home a REALITY in our lives! Not a day should go by that we are not recognizing the treasures in our lives are in our heavenly home, the home JESUS is preparing for us so we can live with Him forever! Living with Him forever is living with pure love forever and being a part of that pure love through Him.

 

What we might lack in imagination we can find in the factual words of God. We have to let HIS words give us the knowledge we need. Let the Holy Spirit paint the picture of the words upon our hearts so we don't forget them, ever!

 

We can't skip over Bible Verses, those are so much more important than any words anyone else can speak or write.  The Bible Verses are the HEART of God's messages to us!

 

Mat 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 

Mat 6:21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 

 

God's word is a heavenly treasure given to us now, pointing us to Him who art in heaven, to Him whose name is hallowed, to Him whose kingdom we wait to come, Him whose will we want done right now here on earth fitting us for His kingdom. We want the daily bread of Christ in our lives, yes, such treasure! We desperately need the gift of forgiveness from our God. And yes, we need to extend that same forgiveness that we need to all others. Just asking not to be led into temptation is our recognition of the power of God over our lives. Pleading to be delivered from evil- is our desperate desire to be saved from anything and everything that would separate us from Him, from His love!  Yes, His is the KINGDOM -- spoken of yet again, spoken of two times in this prayer. Our minds have to be on the KINGDOM that is HIS.  His is the POWER, He only has the POWER to save us! His is the GLORY forever and ever, yes! His is the glory!!!!!! Such glory!!!!

So much life is spoken in those spiritual words given to us by Jesus Himself, so much life, so much promise.

Summing it all up just a bit-  yes, the sinners who received such wondrous miracle done for them by Christ Himself, most likely sinned again. That doesn't mean that every single time we sin we must expect to keep sinning. We must FIGHT the GOOD FIGHT and that fight is against sin. Satan's power is in enticing us to sin. It's a true battle not a fictional one.  Spiritual does not mean fiction! Not seeing our enemy doesn't make him less real.  I know the voltage in a wall socket, invisible as it is to my sight, can kill me.  I don't have to see inside my body to know things in there can kill me. A blood clot can take me out before anyone can stop it. Things invisible to us are still real and deadly.  Satan is spiritual unseen electricity ready to strike at us and our only weapon is the WORD OF GOD and the WORD OF GOD, tells us to put on our armor! To raise our sword of the Spirit of the Word of God!   Christ used that Sword with Satan when He was tempted in the wilderness. He used the Words of God!  So why don't we comprehend the power in the Word of God like we should? We need to bring it out when Satan attacks us, not our made up words, but God's words.  Jesus spoke to Satan like this--  Mat_4:10  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

 

He said GO AWAY SATAN, FOR IT IS WRITTEN!  There is POWER in the words of GOD. Jesus didn't just tell Satan to go away, why? Because Jesus knew he was living upon Satan's world. He had to use God's words, and yes, His own words, to tell Satan why He wouldn't fall to his temptations.

IT IS WRITTEN.  POWER exists in those words to turn Satan away…  "you shall worship the LORD thy GOD, and Him only shall you serve".    Jesus was telling Satan that He would ONLY worship the LORD GOD, that He would ONLY serve the LORD GOD. 

If we only ever learn the words Jesus spoke against Satan, and use those same words when we are attacked, it would be better than holding up a powerless sword of our own devising.

 

We need to go DEEP enough in our walk with GOD. We need to RETAIN GOD in our knowledge! We need to make a concerted effort to study, to show ourselves approved unto God! We need to make God's WORD our true DAILY BREAD, the bread  words spoken by God,  we can't live by our physical food alone, but we can live by EVERY WORD OF GOD EVER SPOKEN!

 

Satan tempted Jesus with food, with being presumptuous in His life, doing things just to try and prove God's power. And with worldly gain, worldly power.   We will be tempted the same in so many different ways.

 

God help us to only ever choose YOU in all things! Help us to take up our swords, readied with YOUR Words. Help us to grow ever closer to YOU, help us to WALK with you! Help us to listen to YOU as You speak to us through Your Word and Words, all through the Holy Spirit sent to us after Jesus ascended to heaven, to be with us as we run this race!

 

Amen!