"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 any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men."
I like to think of it this way...in the beginning was God and all life flowed from him with all power. Gods word is transforming yesterday, today and forever.
When Moses went up the mountain and spent days in the presence of God, HE WAS TRANSFORMED. His spirit literally became infused with the mightiness and holiness of GOD. When he came down from the mountain -- everyone could see the transformation. He shone with LIFE.
That same power was seen by the Israelites as they were led by Moses in the desert places. His very presence was with them as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. In our day i would call a pillar of cloud a tornado. Imagine that...a tornado that was lasoo'd and restrained but powerful nonetheless. That same power parted the red sea providing his people with an escape route.
All consuming...all knowing, all seeing, all supplying is Gods power. It reverberates with life and still does today. Applying Gods word which is really Gods heart and thoughts and ways like a salve to life's problems brings forth life and hope and healing. Just ask the couple whose marriage was saved after infidelity....just ask the woman brought back from the brink of death by suicide...ask the teen who mutilates herself in secret but is able to put the knife down....ask the hopeless infused with meaning and hope --- the dead that rise....the sick who are healed...the grieving who live... the poor who eat and the fearful and poisoned who overcome their demons --- the demon possessed who find peace...the addicted who find freedom.
Ask those who were filled with hatred....who now love.
Only someone resonating with power could bring about such wonder, such life and such hope. Only someone all powerful could infuse a book with such ability.
Just how powerful and alive is God? I love the picture this passage creates... Luke 11:20 says, "But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you." Demons cast out by just the power in Gods pinkie? Let that wash over you with this final thought..."For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God".
It was all things human that led Jesus up Calvary. It was all things mortal that nailed him to the cross and murdered his life. But it was the mighty, living HAND OF GOD that resurrected Jesus and raised him to life as it reverberated power. And it is that knowledge we place our trust in.
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