Reflection: The Word of God             

There’s an uncanny joy in reading Scripture with a newborn. Picture not a snoozing baby, but a hungry, re-born child of God. God’s word is an absolute page-turner. And there are Ah-ha! moments in the most unexpected places (often not just for them, but in turn, for everyone). What seems too complex to explain washes over them with what can only be ‘Spirit’-ual insight.

As Jesus said, the farmer sows the word and people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. All kinds of people in all kinds of situations. There’s no guarantee that Scripture will make spiritual sense, will take root in a hungry heart…or will even get your attention!

But when it does, like it did with young King Josiah, it’s better than Spring on steroids. He was personally cut to the heart by the Book of the Law. He then read it to all the people from the least to the greatest. They re-covenanted and undertook a necessary national purge. Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the Lord as he did — with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses. (2 Kings 23:25)

Prayer:  Enrich the soil of our minds, hearts and wills, Spirit of God. As your people, may we treasure your Word, attend to it, deeply grasp it, be changed by it and act upon it. May the seeds of your Word, scattered throughout the world today, take root and regenerate your treasured people for eternity.