Forever, O LORD, your word
is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Your faithfulness endures to all generations;
you have established the earth, and it stands fast.
Psalms 119:160 (ESV)
The sum of your word is truth,
and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
The fact stated in the above verses gives us great confidence. What other words can be stated as so? Are Shakespeare’s words “fixed in the heavens?” Is Forbes words? How about Socrates? Plato? Nelson Mandela’s quotes? Do Warren Buffet’s words endure to all generations? Are any of these authors, speakers or famous quotorians (I made that word up ... they are people we always quote) speaking truth, much less all truth? Psalms 119 has 176 verses. All but four (84, 91, 122, 149) mention God’s Word in one form or another. The author is going to great extreme to tell us the truth of the above verses. God’s Word is true and it was established before the foundation of the Word and continues to reign today and forever as truth. Notice what the author of Hebrews and what Paul and Jesus tells us about this same truth:
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
John 17:17 (ESV)
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
God gave us His word. His word is true. We are to obey it and live by it.
No comments:
Post a Comment