God Has Given Us His Word

When you hear someone say, ‘I give you my word”, we understand this statement to be an assurance, a serious promise or vow that what they have said they will do and what they’ve told you is the truth.

God has given us His word.

God promised that a flood would never again destroy the earth (Genesis 8:21-22; 9:11-17) – He gave us a sign - His rainbow in the cloud - to remind us of this promise.

God promised that through all nations the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:1-3) and He fulfilled that promise (Galatians 3:26-29).

God’s promises can be trusted. As Joshua wrote in Joshua 21:45 “Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.” The same can be said still today!

When God promises to give us His peace that surpasses all understanding when we give Him our anxieties (Philippians 4:6-7), His word can be trusted!

When God promises to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness when we confess our sins to Him (1 John 1:9), His word can be trusted!

When God promises that His armor will allow us to stand against the wiles of the devil when we put it on every part of it, that the shield of faith will quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one (Ephesians 6:10-18), His word can be trusted!

God has given us His Word.

God so loved the world that He gave His Son, Jesus (John 3:16). Jesus is the Word of God (John 1:1-5; 14) – God has given us His Word!  

Through Jesus fulfilling the promise given to Abram, all nations have been blessed! Because of Jesus’ perfect sacrifice we have opportunity to have our sins forgiven, by being buried with Him (in baptism, Romans 6:3-5) and being raised, just like He was, to walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4-14). Jesus was declared to be the Son of God when God raised Him from the dead (Romans 1:3-4) and when we are raised out of the burial that is baptism we, too, are declared to be children of God (Romans 8:13-17, 1 John 3:1-3). In Christ we are blessed with life (John 14:6; 20:30-31, 1 John 5:11-13), hope (Hebrews 6:13-20, Colossians 1:27), and every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3-14)!    

God has given us His Word.

God loves us SO much that He has given His Word, Jesus, to give us life in His name, and His love has also provided us with His Word, written and preserved for us to read, understand, and obey!

It is by hearing God’s word that we establish our faith (Romans 10:17). In God’s word we find everything we need to know to become His child and to walk properly in His sight! To walk as children of light we are instructed to “find out what is acceptable to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:8-10), to walk in wisdom we are told to “understand what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesiasn5:17), we do this by reading and studying His Word (2 Timothy 3:16-17)!  God has given us His Word! It is our responsibility to read, understand, and obey it!  

When we believe what we hear – take God at His word – we will obey Him; in obeying His commands we will come to understand that every instruction He gives us is only ever for our good, that His way is the BEST way!

God has given us His word. Do you wholly trust Him? You can! Not one word of God’s has failed - Jesus has not failed (John 17:4, 19:28-30) and neither has His written word (Isaiah 55:11, 1 Peter 1:22-25, Hebrews 4:12)! God has given us His word, it is up to us to trust Him enough to listen and obey!

You can do it! So can I!!