The people of God desire the word of God.
This statement was inspired by a young college student who had recently attended a Christian service that proved to do anything but that. In fact, she said, "If preachers can't come up with anything other than an inspirational messages then maybe they should just read from the word for their sermons."
Unfortunately, her sentiments are not just hers alone. There are many people who feel the same way. People who are tired of listening to messages Sunday after Sunday only to live in defeat week after week. Messages that possess no power because they have no word. Messages filled with the wisdom and cliches of this world that leave its listener both starved and void of hope. Messages that do not provoke us to walk in holiness, but deceive us into to believing that our willful sinning is covered because we professed belief in Christ one day.
Beloved, have you not heard; have you not read? For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12) In other words, you cannot spend time in the presence of God and not be effected. Whether His presence causes you to repent or run for the hills, you will be impacted; and if where you go each week to feast on the word of God does neither, then maybe it is time to move on. Maybe it is time to move to a house where the word of God is preached with both clarity and truth; and the result of such teaching is the power of Godś word being manifested in your life´s walk.
Until next time
