The Word of the Lord

If someone was to ask you what was the most important word ever, what would you say?

If someone asked you where you find medicine that would heal you from a deadly disease and make you live eternally, where would you tell them?

If someone asked you why you have joy and hope in a sin-filled world, what would be your answer?

The most important gift we have been given is life. Before you can be given anything else, you have to be alive. Where do you find life? We find life in the Word of the Lord! In the very beginning, before the world was created, there was the Word (John 1:1). Then, the Word created! God spoke, and the world was. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth" (Genesis 1:26). The only place we can get life is from God–He is the One who gives life to all things. As Christians, He has given us another special gift: Joy. Joy is found in the same place as life–in God! You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forever more (Psalm 16:11). “Fullness of joy?!” What else can actually fulfill the promise of giving joy so completely full it can’t get any better? Nothing else can. Only God can give us life and joy. We need something to keep us alive, though–we need our daily bread. And that’s where the Word of the Lord comes back in. Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts (Jeremiah 15:16). When you walk into the kitchen and smell a delicious cake in the oven, you get excited–it would be the “rejoicing of your heart” if your mom walked in and said the whole cake was for you☺ Jeremiah, one of the Old Testament prophets, thought the same thing about the Word of the Lord. He said that when the Word came to him, he ate it, and it was good. Eating God’s Word gave him joy. Just as food gives life to our bodies, the Word of God–the Bible–gives life to our spirits.

Joy and life are not the only things that can be found in the Word. Psalm 119 talks all about the Word. In fact, in the entire Psalm, there are only three verses that do not specifically refer to the Word! The Word comforts and gives life (50); it is something worthy of our love (97); it gives light (97); it is something in which we can hope (114). Try getting out a notebook and writing down everything this Psalm says about the Word. The Word is amazing!


So what is the word that has life? Where can you find joy, peace, and hope? What is the most important word? The Word!