THE LIVING WORD by T.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 49.

THE LIVING WORD.

By T.

“For the Word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Heb. 4:12, R.V. “The word of God is living and active.” It is not alive merely without action, but it acts. Indeed, it is impossible to have life without action of some kind attending it.

The place where that part of God’s word which we call the “Bible” is to live and act is the mind and heart of the believer. We can plainly see the action of God’s word in nature. “God said, Let there be light;” and we are enjoying the light to-day that came in response to that word. “God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind;” and all the vegetation that so beautifully covers this earth, furnishing food to both man and beast and bird, is simply growing in obedience to that word.

Now if you will receive the Word of God into your mind, that is, if you will study the

Bible day by day, and as you study it acknowledge that it is true, you will find by experience that God’s Word both lives and acts. It will not be to you mere words on paper, but it will manifest its life and action by doing in you just what it says it will.

But if you enjoy this blessed experience in the Word of God, you must continually say that every one of God’s words are true. You may not understand how they can be true. But that makes no difference. You can not tell how grass grows, unless you are able to say that it is by the power of God, yet you see that it does grow. And so when you really and truly believe the Bible, you will see that it is “living and active,” and will know that it puts life and power into the believer, just as well as you know that there are life and power in the blade of grass.

If you have never tasted the joys of believing the Word of God, come to the fountain and drink. “O, taste and see that the Lord is good!” T.