Words! Language! Speech!
Just listen.
Our Father spoke something to His people that was imperative to their success as humans. He gave them a reality that would shape their destiny. Food is needed, but you cannot survive on it alone. My words are life to you. My words must be listened to and carried out. Every word that comes from my mouth should be sealed upon your heart. Jesus repeats this in the face of Satan. Jesus knew the power that came from His mouth. In fact, Jesus was there in that wilderness with the Father and Spirit, saying those words to the Israelites. All Jesus did was repeat what He said back in a previous wilderness into a current wilderness. It’s His words. The power to strengthen belief is in His language.
In order to fully live today, you must be able to breathe in and out whatever the Father is saying. Jesus said in John that He doesn’t speak on His own. He is not just slinging words out of His mouth, trying to slay giants and change people’s minds. He said that every word He speaks is a word the Father is speaking. He told the disciples that His Father gave him a command on what to say and what to speak. He said that the words He has been told to speak are the words that give eternal life. What He said was what the Father told Him to say. So if He claims that the words He says grant us eternal life, why wouldn’t the words He said also give us the victory over any trial? If His words cover eternal life, why would they not work for our circumstances as well?
Jesus goes on to say that the Father is actually inside Him, and that if you have seen Jesus himself, you have seen the Father. He then says that when He speaks, it’s not on His own authority, but the Father’s authority. He even says that the works He’s doing are works the Father is doing through Him.
Here is the ultimate question for us. If we love Him, we will cherish His words and keep his commandments. After all, everything He said, the Father actually said. You cannot come and see the father except through Jesus, the son.
With this being said, what do you think would be the greatest tactic of the enemy of God?
Words! Language! Speech!
“Did God actually say…?” There are those words that are intended to cause doubt concerning the Words of God. “You will not surely die.” There’s the alternative to God’s words. “God knows that you be like Him and know all things if you eat from it.” There is the replacement of God’s words.
I think God is very intentional in not including many words spoken by Satan in scripture. Why would He? There is no eternal life from the words of the deceiver. His book is offering eternal life and anything that is against that will be destroyed.
Satan pulls the same stunt with Jesus that he pulled in the garden.
“If you are the son of God?” There are those words that are intended to cause doubt concerning the Words of God. Jesus knew He was the son of God. Satan wanted to cause doubt. “Command these stones to become bread.” There is the alternative language. He is giving Jesus another option, but completely out of context. Then what’s happens next is Jesus doesn’t engage with the replacement words of Satan, instead He speaks out the words of God. Jesus lived on the words of his Father. He didn’t need another option.
I am trying to get to a place in this writing where I as the writer, fully trust that the words of my God solve all of life. To get my head into a space where the author of language wants me to trust that His language is holding all things together. That Jesus, the word of God who was from the beginning and will be there at the end of time, has chosen to uphold all of creation simply by His words. He has said that the entire universe is functioning at this very moment by the energy of His language.
We must pay close attention to what we have heard from his mouth. Why? If we neglect the very thing (The words from God’s mouth), then we are choosing self destruction of our very fibers. His words hold our being together and if we reject them, we unfold and become dust again. A hardened heart willingly checks in to the rebellion hotel. That hotel is a place of eternal unrest. God’s word is rest. It’s a sabbath speech. But it’s not sleeping. It’s active. It’s living. It’s bread. It’s sharper than a surgeon’s scalpel. It has the power to cut away everything and leave us lying there, only to listen to the words of God. We cannot deny His word, but we can choose to harden our heart and open our ears to trickery and deception.
The goodness of his language is a foretaste of the powers to come. Why not enjoy that power now? His words are like fresh honey to those who hunger. They are like streams of living water for those who thirst. The problem for most of us is not that we aren’t hungry or thirsty, but that we have fed ourselves the stones the enemy offered to us as manna. We have believed that if we blindly do certain things, God will come and rescue us from all harm, kind of like jumping off the temple and expecting angels to come to our aid. We have trusted that by enjoying fully the things of this world, we will be given our hearts’ desires. It’s an asking to fall down and worship another idol. We should say, “Be gone. I only listen to the language of my Father and worship Him only.” Those words send the evil one off. It frustrates him when an image bearer has confidence in the words of God instead of reasoning. It’s faith. We must move, speak and have our being in faith.
What are the implications? Just listen. Be a child of God that spends their day trying to hear every word that comes out of the mouth of your Father. Don’t weaponized the Bible and make it seem like a duty. Don’t avoid nature and miss it declaring the glory of God. Don’t turn your ear from the Spirit of God in others when they are sharing things with you. Don’t avoid dreaming or letting your mind be open to a vision God has for you. Be aware that you might be entertaining angels. Listen to the Holy Spirit inside of you who is guiding you, helping you, healing you, presenting the words of the Father to you. Whatever you hear, repeat it a thousand times. Let the words of your mouth be evidence of the mediation of your heart.