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SOUNDING OUT:
What God Hath Not Said
The more I read the Bible, and the
more I meditate upon it, the more I am amazed with it. The casual
reader of the Bible, does not know the breadth, length, height,
and depth of the beauty and grandeur contained in its pages. But
it takes more than just careful observation. There is a reverence
required if we are to mine the real truths of the scriptures.
Part of the greatness of God's Word resides in the relationship
it reveals to the reader about the Author and develops for the
reader with the Author, God.
These exceeding great and precious promises of which II
Peter Chapter one speaks, are the means by which we escape the
corruption of the world and partake of God's divine nature. There
are certain times when I read something for the NTH time and it's
like I never read it before. David said in Psalm 119:18, ‘Open
thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.’
This prayer has been hot on my heart for about two years now.
When I read an old scripture and discover a new way of looking
at it or a new vein of thought regarding it, I am most utterly
blessed.
I’ve always been amazed and thrilled by what God
has said. Today, as I sat down to write this I thought about ‘what
God has not said.’ What God says and what people say God
says are frequently two very different things. Trouble is immanent
when we believe that God has said what He has not declared. For
sure, if God hath spoken something it shall surely come to pass
(Numbers 23:19). But, what if God says that He has never said
something.
The scriptures are full of strength to endure and comfort
(Romans 15:4). I have also found much consolation and strengthening
in considering WHAT GOD HAS SAID THAT HE HAS NOT SAID.
Isaiah 45:19:
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said
not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right.
God wants His Word and will known.
That’s why He spoke it. That’s why He had it written
down. We can count on the Word of God because He speaks righteously
that which is right. If He declares something, it is true and
reliable altogether.
How dare we ever think we seek God in vain... that His ears are
closed to our prayers… that He does not care what happens
to us. God has so clearly, so righteously, so faithfully spoken.
There should be no doubt.
The best time to seek Him is NOW.
Isaiah 55:6-11:
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call
ye upon him while he is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth
not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth
and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the
eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall
not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew
4:4). These words are not boomerangs. They don’t return
to God without having an impact, an effect that He desires. When
we seek Him with our whole hearts we will never be disappointed.
Psalms 119:2
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek
him with the whole heart.
It is never vain to seek the Lord.
We pursue Him in His Word. What a great adventure lay ahead. It
is as if the Scriptures enlarge as we enter them. The more we
study them the more they widen out as we approach them. What appears
first as a volume of only about 1500 pages, unfolds like a road
map and leads us to the very heart of our Father, God. Enjoy your
journey!
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