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DAILY IMMERSION Monday | 02. The Factors of the Chuch’s Decline
The importance of God’s word is the first thing God’s children need to have in mind. As human beings, our words serve as a vehicle for communicating our ideas to others. However, the Word of God is much more than that. God is the Word. When He came to earth, Christ was the Word of God and life was in Him. It is true that the Word communicates God’s thoughts to us, but there is something that very few Christians realize: this Word is God Himself. It brings us far beyond the thought of God, it brings God Himself, His life, nature, which is light and love, and His attributes like righteousness, holiness and glory. The word brings God into us! (John 1:1, 14).
The Word of God is different from the word we use as communication between men. Just as Christ is the true vine and all the vines that bear grapes on the earth are a shadow of Him, similarly, the word we use to communicate is a shadow of the true Word, which is God. This Word not only communicates to us information from God, but it communicates to us God Himself. It is not from information that man lives, but it is from the Word that brings God Himself and gives life to the one who receives it (John 15:1; Matt. 4:4)
Since Old Testament times God had already told His people that they should live by His Word, which would be their supply. When we were saved, God brought us into Christ as the good land for our enjoyment. We will prosper in this good land if we live by the Word of God, which is not merely instruction or information, but is God Himself who will prosper us in the good land. (Deut. 6:1-5)
God knew that man was not able to keep the law. God gave us the Word so that we would have the power to carry it out. This word needs to be in the heart of man. For this, God gave the way of inculcating the Word, which means repeating it over and over in order to engrave, imprint the word in the heart. It also means recording making incisions, piercing like a surgeon. What God writes in your heart will be engraved and is impossible to erase (Deut. 6:6-7; 2 Cor 3:3).