I have been through much this past month, with the sale of my house complete. Though you haven't heard from me the writing goes on in my heart always because the Lord is always speaking to me in everyday life. If we listen He takes common events and speaks truths to us. He is very simple and profound. His Word does pierce my soul to separate the flesh and Spirit. In Matthew 4:4 it says, "Man cannot live by bread alone but by every "word" that precedes from the mouth of God." In the Greek there are two words used for "Word", one is logos, which is the written word, and the other is rhema, which is the spoken word. In this verse the one used is Rhema. I have been a student of the written Word since I was a child. When I became born again as a teen, the bible came to life. As I daily read it certain verses would jump off the page like a bright light in a dark place. As I continued to seek the Lord in this new life, I began to hear His voice. It is like no other, it is as the Lord said, ......"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life" John 6:63.
His Word is life and it is the only thing that keeps me going on. When you have been stripped, when all you depended on has left or been taken away.......where do you go?
To read the bible as a book, to take it in with only human intelligence will bring knowledge but not life. To allow the Holy Spirit to be teacher and guide, to speak the Words to us, will cause us to take flight as an eagle to the wind, in whatever storm that comes.
In little over a year my life has totally changed since my loving husband of 30 years went to be with my Lord. I got a new job, we had our sweet 15 year old pet put down and finally my house of 20 years sold with most of our belongings. I look around and it is like living someone else's life. Without the stability of His unchanging Word, life would seem meaningless. Everyday I need the Rhema to go on. As I read, I seek the Lord by His Holy Spirit to breath life in me, to empower me, to change me, to bring me to where He has for me. John had underlined this verse in his bible...
"I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgement is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me."
Since my life is not my own, what I have or have not is not the issue, but what I hear and do. A friend shared with me this week what her husband heard the Holy Spirit speak it to him. "We are stripped only to be clothed". What are you clothed with, or in this case with "whom". Does your life consist of what you own or what you are in Him. If you lose any of it, how will you respond? Do you seek to see what only the Holy Spirit can show? Do you want His will and purpose above all else? I do not ask these questions as one who is perfect. I have struggled and shed many tears in anguish but in the midst of it all I have been showed such mercy and grace to go on. May we hear what the Spirit is saying....feed upon it, and be strengthened by it daily so we can do the will of the Father who loves us and bring Glory to His Name. So be it Lord.....
