God’s Words Are Timeless
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HE SPEAKS TIMELESS WORDS
1 Peter 1:24-25 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away: 25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
The wonder of His Words, stories and etc. is that His Word is eternal. At the moment of quickening, it gives instant life to our hearts. Yet, next time He may quicken the same story and it will have another application for another set of circumstances. His Words always grow WITH us. That is because it is HIM speaking.
It amazes me how so many people can walk away from a sermon, each fed and met at their point of need. If you ask what the need was, each will say something different. Only God can take one Word and quicken it so many ways. His Word HAS to be eternal to reach us all!
As mentioned before, I belong to a small group where each of us keep a daily journal of things the Lord is speaking into our lives. When we compare days, often we will find that He will talk to us about similar issues within the same time period. What amazes me, is that His Words are so flexible to cover so many applications. Someone else in the group may have heard something prophetic for the future, but when I read it, it can be applied to the natural circumstance of what I just went through. One person may hear a Word and it has a total different application for each of us, not only spiritually but physically. Other times I may read something a year later and realize I am going through the same thing, and His Word is quickened for an entirely new set of circumstances.
When our cats Cally and Cuddles shared the same pillow, I often rubbed both of them with one hand at the same time. I grinned and thought of how big God is and how He touches us in the same way. They purred and sometimes they‘d realize I was loving the other cat, and sometimes they were oblivious, thinking they were the only ones in the world. Take notice when another person shares what God is speaking into his own life at the moment. It may have a larger application. If you stop and think about it, it may touch your own life as well!
