A few random thoughts on God's Word

God's word is personal:

• The speaker is a person - the Father
• The content is a person - the Son
• The hearers are people - the church past and present

It is tempting to forget who is addressing us, and treat it merely as the opinion of another human.

It is tempting to forget that it is all about Christ, his person and work. We can think that it is all about me and meeting my felt needs, a rule-book, or about an irrelevant religion of a dead people.

It is tempting to forget that it is meant to be spoken to people. If it is not applied to individuals then it is not doing what it is meant to.

God's word is an arrow:

• It has a target: God's Word is addressed to us
• It will impact: God's Word is powerful and does what it says

It is tempting to treat God's Word as an object to be 'engaged' with. It is, but it is also a moving object that is 'engaging' us.

It is also tempting to treat God's Word as for someone else (either the sinner sat next to me in church who needs rebuking, the saint who we think deserves to be loved by God, or an ancient nation long past). It is for them, but it is also for us.