Wonderful Word of Life
To
so many, the Word of God is a dead book. It is because they are dead
in their sins, having the heart and mind darkened [EPHESIANS
4:18].
They do not rejoice in the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
that it reveals, because it takes eyes to see. They rest in their
works and boast of their will, their faith, and their goodness,
because their eyes have never been opened to see the truth of God’s
sovereign will, that faith is the gift of God, and that the only good
is the perfect obedience of Christ put to the sinner’s account. It
is as God opens the eyes that any come to see the Gospel as LIVING.
The Lord Jesus said in JOHN
6:63- “It
is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
The
story is told of a young man who went into a taxidermist’s shop. He
was noticing all of the dead, but life-like animals on display. He
stopped in front of an owl and began criticizing the shopkeeper’s
work, pointing out “mistakes” in the owl’s wings, legs, and
angle of the head. In his pride he boasted that he could have done a
better job himself. Suddenly, the owl turned his head and blinked.
The prideful young man had mistakenly imagined the owl to be just
another dead stuffed animal, but to his shame found himself to be the
fool. Many
mistakenly imagine the Word to be just another piece of dead
literature, or the Gospel a poor work of men’s hands. Nevertheless,
it is alive, truly the work of God’s hands!
-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard
Sovereign
Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA
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