To Love God is to love God’s Word
(logos and rhema)

Jesus is the Eternal, Living Word (logos) of God made flesh (incarnate) to restore us and creation to God’s image and love. Jesus is the only means for us to be delivered from God’s holy and just wrath toward all sin. But more than just be “safe” from hell, we want to know Jesus now, today, personally, and to grow in relationship with him (walking the journey with him). His written word feeds and helps us. Jesus said to some religious people, “You search the Scriptures but won’t come to Me for life.” We want to do both—search God’s commands and ask His grace and presence to help us.

One way Jesus lives in us and works through us is by us receiving the Word with intention: intention to be changed and change the world. God does this in us as we meditate in it, then speak specific words of Scripture (rhema). This paragraph from Ted Sandquist’s book, “It Is Written” stirred my faith not only in Jesus who is the Word (logos) made human for us but in the Word of God (rhema) which is living and active to divide soul from spirit in our hearts and minds (Heb 4:12-13); which Jesus used to defeat the Tempter’s lies (Matthew 4:4); is ready to be in our mouths and increase faith (Rom 10:8,17); is the sword of the Spirit in our prayers (Eph 6:17-18).

The Word of God is more than a standard for everyone and everything at all times. The Word of God is what holds everyone and everything to account with God. It does the work of dividing between flesh and spirit-temporal and eternal-wherever it is applied in faith by God's faithful. That means whatever nations, city, neighborhood, family, relationship, and whatever generation it is applied to until all His enemies are beneath His footstool. Nothing is hidden from Him. Nothing is shielded form His Word. His Word blesses. His Word examines. His Word judges. His Word unveils. His Word protects. His Word rescues. His Word redeems. his Word washes. His Word casts out. His Word welcomes. His Word binds. His Word looses. His Word calls forth. His Word creates. His Word destroys. His Word exalts. His Word abases. His Word sets in. His Word removes. His Word accomplishes everything for which it was sent.

It has been my hope that as we meditate and contemplate God’s Word this Lent we would grow in love for Christ, for others and for ourselves, in all our weaknesses and needs. Live and love The Word. Speak His Word. -PD