The life of the Christian is the life of the Word of God. There’s no better example of this than the Lord Jesus Himself. When you look through what the prophets wrote about the Messiah, you’ll discover Jesus fulfilled every single prophecy. Many times He rebuked the scribes with the same Law they claimed to know so well. He lived the Word beyond the written pages of the books.
The Word goes beyond letters; it goes beyond the written pages. It’s meant to be alive and to minister life to people. This is the reason God wasn’t pleased with the scribes, Pharisees and doctors of the Law. They didn’t practice what they preached and there was no life in what they taught. When Jesus spoke, the words leapt out of the written pages, so much so that many people were amazed at His doctrine and testified that He spoke as one with authority (Mark 1:22). Jesus showed God alive in His days on earth. So did the apostles, and their works recorded in the book of Acts and the epistles are a testimony.
My question is: Where do we stand in all these? My Bible shows me we’re living in the greatest move of God’s Spirit in all the ages put together. The apostles in the book of Acts only stood on the threshold of it, but we’re living in the days when the early and latter rains are coming together, glory to God! No longer should the people of the world wonder if God is still with us. Reveal God in you to them! Let the Word so dominate you that your life becomes a living epistle. Opportunities abound daily to show the manifold wisdom of God to your world. Once you allow the force of God’s Word take hold of you, you’ll be the living, talking and walking Word of God. You’ll become God’s Word lived beyond the written pages of the Book.
