‘For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.’ (Heb 4:12)
Jeremy Camp’s new album ‘I Will Follow’ (received gratefully as one of my birthday presents this week) starts with the song ‘Living Word’. More and more as I grow in God, I realise that my own thoughts and feelings are frequently at odds with what God’s Word tell me and that faith involves the conscious, calculated (and at times, even cold) decision to stand on the truth found in the living word of God rather than my own thoughts and feelings.
‘I will stand on the truth
In the living word of God
‘Cause every time it moves my soul and shapes my every thought
It’s alive in me, the very breath I breathe
I’m holding on with all I’ve got to the living word,
The living word of God
The living word of God
I can’t survive on bread alone
I hunger and I thirst for your words that give me hope.’ (‘Living Word’, Jeremy Camp)
