Deeper Life #216

O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

—Psalm 119:97

IF WE HAVE PRESENTED THE Word of God, it is not our business to apply it, for the Spirit of God will do that. Our hearers may seem to subside to their old level of living and forget what has been said. But they cannot forget all about it, because God says, “My word . . . shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11). That does not mean the Word will produce what we want. But it will produce what God wants. We must sow the Word. Then, God says, “It shall accomplish that which I please.”

In some cases, the Word of God will be a “savour of life unto life”; in other cases, it will be a “savour of death unto death.” But rest assured, no individual who believingly receives the Word of God can ever be the same again. It profoundly alters life! The force and power of the new idea that is planted by the Word of God will certainly bring forth fruit after many days—either in damnation or in salvation!

Prayer Thought: Have Your way, according to Your will, in the lives of those with whom I share God’s Word.

SUGGESTED READING: Psalm 119:97–104