God Speaks and He Lives

This post encourages you to place a premium on God’s words as they are written in the Bible. God’s words and your obedience to them is the difference between your quality of life today and what it could be. (May 2021)
Texts – please read the Bible references as you read the post.
Key Points
- We begin this post by looking at the origin and purpose of the scriptures (Bible). In 2 Timothy 3:16 we learn that all the scriptures were inspired by God. That is, the scriptures were written by human beings under the dictation of God. God is the author of the books put together and called the Bible! In this scripture, we understand that the purpose of the scriptures is to teach us what is true, make us realize what is wrong in our lives, and teach us to do what is right. Therefore the Bible is like the manual of a sophisticated machine put together by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). You should consider the Bible as the final authority on the problems of the world, your country, family, business, and personal life.
- The word of God is the difference between the quality of your life today and what it could be. Joseph was 17 years old when God spoke to him through his dreams (Genesis 37:1-8). God did not speak to his eleven (11) brothers. Thirteen (13) years later, Joseph became the Prime Minister in Egypt because of God’s word (Psalm 105:16-22). The eleven (11) brothers who God did not speak to remained on the same trajectory as regards the quality of their lives. The clear difference between the brothers was God’s word. The scriptures will literally change the trajectory of your life if you would pay attention to them.
- We make here a very important point – God’s blueprint for your life and what it would achieve has been encoded by Him in the scriptures! In Psalm 139:13-16 we see this point very clearly. We use the word ‘encoded’ because you won’t find your name in the Bible. However, what you will come to realize as you pay attention to the scriptures is that it is more than a compendium of historical facts. It is also a ‘puzzle’ book containing God’s blueprint for the wellbeing of your country, family, business, and personal life. Because God knew what He would do with you before the world even started (Acts 15:18), He had the foresight to encode the blueprint for your life in the historical events He inspired the writers of the scriptures to document. Aren’t you willing to learn about this life God designed for you?
- Understanding the Bible and God’s blueprint for your life requires revelation by the Holy Spirit (God) who authored it (1 Corinthians 2:6-10). He must be living in you. You get the Holy Spirit to take up residence in you when you believe that Jesus died for your sins to save you from eternal damnation. If you confess this in a silent prayer to God and mean it in your heart, you will be saved. The Holy Spirit in that moment will come to live in you. Follow this up by daily communion with God in prayers, daily reading of the Bible and being part of a local church. With time, as you ask Him, He will reveal to you His blueprint for your life.
- You are wrong when you reject God’s existence and that of His word. You may be doing this because of a tragic event that happened to you, the challenges you currently face, or the suffering you see in the world. The truth is these things may have happened in the first place because of disobedience to God’s word. Take for example Judah, one of the brothers of Joseph (Genesis 38). He was one of the eleven brothers that did not receive a dream from God. Shortly after the eleven brothers had sold Joseph to the slave traders, he left his father and brothers to make it in life his own way. The reason Jacob and his sons stayed together as a large family was because God had promised to make them a great nation. Judah lost faith in this promise, became angry and sought liberty from what he considered was a restriction on him. He relocated from the family house and went into a business partnership with a friend. He got married and had three sons. Within a period of about 22 years, Judah lost two of his sons and his wife in quick succession. He also impregnated his daughter in-law without knowing. The trajectory of his life threatened to end up in a cul de sac (a dead-end street). As this was happening to Judah, Joseph had become Prime Minister in Egypt. The trajectory of a life that rejects God’s word ends in shame. That of a life that places a premium on God’s word ends in glory.
- This post has been written to encourage you to place a premium on God’s word as documented in the Bible. It will change the trajectory of your life. In it is encoded God’s blueprint – God’s great plans for you, your country, family, and business. No matter how old you are, how deep the issues, or how far gone you may be – you can spend the rest of your life the way God originally planned it! (Mark 12:24)
The mercy and grace of God be with us all. Amen.
Reference Texts
2 Timothy 3:16 – 17 – All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. (NLT)
Genesis 37:1-8 – So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived as a foreigner. This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing. Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe. But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t say a kind word to him.
One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever. “Listen to this dream,” he said. “We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before mine!” His brothers responded, “So you think you will be our king, do you? Do you actually think you will reign over us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dreams and the way he talked about them. (NLT)
Psalm 105:16-22 – Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread. He sent a man before them – Joseph – who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom. (NKJV)
Psalm 139:13-16 – You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. (NLT)
Acts 15:18 – Known to God from eternity are all His works. (NKJV)
1 Corinthians 2:6-10 – However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. (NKJV)
Mark 12:24 – Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God. (NLT)