Hebrew 1;3.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power
DAILY READING Acts 10:34-48; Joshua 9-10; Job 25
The Word of God has power to uphold all things. As long as you are holding on to the Word, it will hold you up. You can liken it to someone holding on to a rubber, in a river, as long as he holds on to the rubber, he will not sink.
In New York in 2013, according to News Reports, a fisherman was on his lobster boat at sea around 3am, as he tried to move a cooler the handle snapped off, and he fell backwards into the sea. He was not wearing a life jacket when he fell, and would have drowned but for his pair of rubber boots. As he floated on the water, he noticed that his calf-length rubber boots kept his feet higher in the water than his head. So he took off the boots, turned them upside down, filled them with air and placed them under each arm as a flotation device. These pair of rubber boots kept him from sinking, as he floated for 12 hours in the Atlantic ocean, drifting more than 40 miles from his boat.
The Coast Guard crews from across New England and commercial fishing crews, coordinated a search for him that covered 780 square miles. A Coast Guard helicopter out of Cape Cod finally spotted him floating on the water. He was hoisted up from the ocean to safety. This fisherman, though rattled, was very much alive; quite grateful for the pair of rubber boots that kept him afloat.
When you hold on to the unsinkable, you also become unsinkable. As long as the rubber boots could not sink, this fisherman could not sink. The only possible way he could have sunk was if he had let go of the rubber boots.
The same way as long as you hold on to The Word of God which never fails you too can never fail. Hebrew 1:3.tells us that God upholds all things by the word of his power. The whole of creation is being held up, by The Word of God. Heaven and earth shall pass away but The Word shall not pass away. The Word of God is infallible, abiding forever.
Manmade ideas, and wisdom will fail and fade, but the counsel from God will always stand the test of time. Proverbs 19;21 tells us that there are many devices, in a man’s heart, but the counsel of The Lord alone shall stand. So we do not just do things because others are doing it, we do things because God has ordered it. When our endeavors are based upon the revealed Word, it doesn’t matter the economic or social climate in the world, that endeavor will stand.
The Word is the seed, it is the foundation, the root of anything that will last.. Isaiah 40:8 says, ‘The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Operating by God’s Word revealed to you is walking in covenant with God. And God keeps covenants . Psalm 74:20 says ‘Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty’. It is the covenant, that keeps you shielded from the activities of the wicked. The Word is what keeps the enemy afar from your affairs. The enemy knows that as long as you are connected to the Word, you are connected to God, and if God be for you who can be against you? The Word, is our guarantee for infallibility. It is building upon the rock that never fails.
Keeping your gaze on the Word is what will keep you from sinking. As long as Peter focused on Jesus who is The Word, he could walk on the water, it was only when he looked away to look at the storm that he began to sink.
You have to learn to ignore the storm and keep your gaze on The Word. All the rage of the enemy is to try to get you to shift your focus. Since the enemy is helpless against the result, he tries to thwart the process, but as long as you fasten your gaze on The Word you will never fail. All the noise, all the billow, all the bad news, all the clamor is an attempt to get you to shift. But remain stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. For surely there is an end and your expectations shall not be cut off. So it doesn’t matter, the noise of the enemy, keep looking unto Jesus. Keep holding unto His promises. keep declaring His revealed Word over your life. The Word you are speaking is holding you up. You don’t have to wonder or ponder how things will turn out for you, just settle on what God has said. God is able to keep His Word and keep His promises to you. God is not man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent, has He said it, He will surely do it. So it doesn’t matter what that situation may look like, align yourself to what the scriptures have said. Hold on to The Word which will never fail. And as long as you hold on to The Word which cannot sink, you too can never sink.
PRAYER: Lord, please hold me up by Your Word, keep me from the storms and turbulence of this world . Grant me the grace to keep my gaze upon Your Word, no matter what things may look like around me, because I know that by Your Word I will be held up, I will be above and never sink in Jesus Name.
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The study of The Word will keep shame and disgrace far from you. WORDBITE 222.
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK FAITH CLASSICS]