WHEN GOD SPEAKS

Psalm 33:6-9 “The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word,
and all the stars were born. He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs. Let the whole world fear the Lord, and let everyone stand in awe of Him. For when He spoke, the world began! It appeared at His command.”

In Psalm 33, the Psalmist, King David, is referring to God speaking the universe into existence out of nothing. From the account of creation in Genesis, David understood that God spoke into existence things that did not exist. They were not before He spoke them into being.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Eternal Triune God is God, alone. There is no other. All the “gods” of every other religious construct are not “gods” at all. Demonic forces may attach themselves to idols and ideologies of deception, but they are not creative. They only seek to distort, deface, pervert, and disfigure God’s creation, especially the crown of His creation, humanity.

Over and over God displays His omnipotence by calling into being things that do not exist prior to His calling them into being. Out of bodies that was as good as dead, life-long barrenness, God causes life to be conceived and Abraham and Sarah receive Isaac from God, the son of promise.

Romans 4:17b “This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing.”

I have said it before, but will write it here again, there is no one more ineffective that a dead person. They cannot ever change their condition. God tells us in His Word that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, infinitely short of what God intended when He called humanity into being at the beginning. We were all born spiritually, really, and essentially dead, separated from the only relationship that can make one fully human again.

John, in the opening chapter of his Gospel writes about Jesus, the One through Whom everything that has been made was made. (John1:10-13) “He came into the very world He created, but the world did not recognize Him. He came to His own people, and even they rejected Him. But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.”

New birth by the Holy Spirit is a passing from death into Life. It is done by God alone, by grace through faith He gives as a gift. We could no more save ourselves than we could breathe a star into existence. God speaks His Word into us, causing us to hear, giving us eyes to see, causing repentance and confession to be born in us turning us from sin and self to God. The wonder of His salvation is that He alone does it. Salvation is of the Lord.

St. Paul writes that the Gospel has power to rescue. God’s Word has power to transform any life from the deadness of sin into heirs of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. I have watched people be delivered from demonic oppression simply by reading God’s Word. His Word calls into being things that did not exist before. Things like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, meekness, displace the darkness in a human heart by the Holy Spirit filling it with Light.

Impurity, sexual immorality, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, selfish ambition, outbursts of rage, dissention, division, envy, drunkenness, and the like are displaced by receiving the Word of God implanted in a heart.

I commend to you the Word of God written. It will clarify life. It will wash you, cleanse you, convict you, give you hope that will never disappoint you, guide you, strengthen you and cause you to be identified with the God Who called you into being. You will find God saving you, changing you, transforming you to be all He created you to be. Believe Him. Let Him speak His Word in you. Things that were not there before will come to be as He makes you look like Jesus!