Well, I
don’t know how many people attempt to fix their computers when things go wrong,
but I do, simply because it’s so expensive to get a professional. Perhaps the time for self-fixing is over
though because it seems to take longer and longer to find answers (online
mostly) and fix the issues. As a result,
I’ve been working at it for hours and it still isn’t quite right, but it is
usable, so I’m taking this opportunity to post.
The internet
seems the biggest and quickest source of information that is available to
mostly everyone. At the same time, not
all the information is accurate: some is based on opinions, others
unintentional misinformation, and yet others are intentional and out to deceive,
often to make a sale; and so we must frequently wade through copious amounts of
information to find what we are looking for.
It would be a
completely different world if we could trust everyone to be honest with their
information! But there is one who has
never lied: “God is not a man that He
should lie…” (Nm. 23:19). He doesn’t
need to lie since He knows everything, sees everything, made everything and is
the most powerful person in the universe.
He can basically do as He pleases.
“Whatever the LORD pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas
and all deeps.” (Ps. 135:6 ESV; also Ps. 115:3)
Still, there
is a place we can go, filled with information that is helpful in all the areas
of our lives- the Bible. Those are God’s
words written by man for our benefit. “All Scripture is God-breathed…” (2Tm. 3:16)
Sure, it is thousands of years old, yet to all who read, heed and apply, it is
fresh and new everyday and is able to transform our lives (Jm. 1:21; Rm. 12:2). All the information in the world (which they
claim as their own) can’t do that!
Some people
insist it was just written by men.
Others insist it is only stories, myths, symbols and metaphors. Many think it simply isn’t applicable to
their lives- especially this century. There
are many proofs against these allegations, but my own story is one that can not
easily be refuted for I know what
the Word of God has done in my life. It
has changed me in ways that I never thought possible.
My childhood
was filled with emotional turmoil. I was
shy, unable to come out of my shell, even midway into high-school. Then I was born again, and the Lord began to
do a work in me, primarily through His Word, but also through solid teaching of
others. Almost immediately He took away
most of the shyness, but it would take years for a most of the emotional
healing to take place.
From later
teen years to mid twenties, I was very judgmental, never seeing myself as such,
of course. I thought very highly of my
own faith in the Lord and how much I knew Him and His Word… (yep, that’s
pride) Anyway, most of the garbage in my
life was inward and hidden from the world, but of course I judged others for
their outward sins- never really seeing my own.
But one by one, the Lord used His Word to hack away at them, revealing
my own heart to me time and time again.
He also showed me more than once how my faith was wishy washy, quickly
disappearing in difficult times- in other words, not true faith.
Today I am
transformed inwardly in so many ways that I barely recognize my inside self. Oh, I don’t kid myself, for I know I still
have a looooong way to go as some recent posts indicate, but I fully know
beyond knowing it was the Lord’s doing through His Word and words in my
life. Other books have impacted me a
little here or there, but nothing has transformed me (yes, for the better) as
much as the Word of God.
For the Word of God is
living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart
Hb. 4:12