"Is not my word like fire," declares the Lord, "And like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?" Jeremiah 23:29
"In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take up the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit with all prayer and supplication." Ephesians 6:16 - 18
The Word of God can convict and it can heal and protect. It can come down like "a hammer breaking a rock into pieces" or can guide us through "prayer and supplication."
We see this play out in John 4 when Christ, the Word of God, speaks to a Samaritan woman. Christ asks the woman for a drink, against the customs of the day since Jews considered Samaritans unclean. The woman brings up this point and Christ answers, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." (v. 10) Christ then explains that he is the living water that will give a "spring of water welling up eternal life." (v. 14) When she asks to receive the water of which he speaks, he asks her to go get her husband. "I have no husband," she replies. Christ said, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is quite true." (v 17 and 18).
Like a velvet hammer, Christ spoke and she was convicted. He spoke truth and offered her the well of eternal life.
Where are those areas in our lives that the word needs to break apart as we examine our lives? What are our needs that we go to the word for supplication? How can we use Christ's example as we deliver the Word to people? Pray that we use God's Word daily as we seek to grow as disciples who have been called and known since we were in our mother's wombs.
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