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Yes! There Is Good News!

Bill Rollins has been publishing each week a column in the local Elk Horn, Iowa paper for the past several years.
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Yes! There is Good News!                  May 10, 2019

2/28/2022

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How powerful are words?

Concerning His own “words,” God said this, “Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.” Wow! That is a long time. In our previous article I mentioned that God spoke and the heavens and the earth were created. God’s words are powerful!!

Here is how the apostle John begins his gospel, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” We may wonder what John is saying here but he goes on to explain, “(this Word) was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. He came unto His own but His own did not receive Him. Yet to all who receive Him, to those
who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God; born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.” I think it is especially interesting that John is inspired, by the Spirit of God, to call the one who would become the Savior, by the term “the Word.” (John 1:1-14)

Yes, God’s word is the ultimate in power and authority. It is by His words that we truly have life, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” That everyone of us can have access to this word of His is truly a gift from God. We have access to the written word of God because down through the ages men have given their lives to ensure its availability. For a very
modest amount of money, we may have this treasure to hold in our hands! But we have access to the true and living Word of God, Jesus Christ. It is interesting how the Bible describes this access to the Living Word.

In John 6:44 Jesus says, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.” Earlier in this same chapter we read, “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.” (John 6:37) And then once more in verse 65, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has given it to him.”
Access to this Living Word – Jesus Christ – is limited to the will of the Father. I feel compelled to say, “Thank you, Father, for drawing me to your Son.”

If you run across a new word that you have never used before, it is easy to get a dictionary and find its meaning. (Oh, I know, nobody uses the dictionary anymore; you just ask Siri for the definition and bingo, you have it.) But what if you want to come to know the true and living Word? That is where the written word comes in. Are you a curious person? Are you one who wants to add to your knowledge? The written word of God is a true treasure, filled with knowledge and understanding. What? It’s not easy, you say? All things of value take hard work to attain. But God is always there to help. It may not be immediate, for God wants us to seek Him with all our heart.

Don’t go away folks; there’s still more to come!
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