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REFLECTIONS

THE POWER OF
God’s Word!
In 384 A.D. a young teacher from North Africa
went to Milan, Italy, to take a position as teacher of
What God’s Word
rhetoric. While there, he became troubled about his can do for you
sins and sought desperately to get right with God.
One day in the back yard of his home, while on Many people struggle through life needlessly,
the verge of almost complete despair, he heard the when only a little more time spent with God’s Word
voice of a child next door chanting, “Take and read, would bring the peace, faith and happiness they
take and read.” seek.
Immediately he took the Scriptures and read

that Jesus Christ was the way of complete for-
giveness of sins. Through reading the Word of Besides the once-and-for-all cleansing of
God this man’s life was changed and he became Salvation, you need the daily cleansing of the Word
St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, one of the great from daily sin.
Christians of all time.

◆ The Word of God is like a map to help you find
The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws your way through life.
all books but the Bible. It has a pertinent relevance

to every age. It has worked miracles by itself alone.
It has made its way where no missionary has gone The more dearly you begin to love His Word
and done the missionary’s work. Nineteen centuries and read and study it, the more mature you will
of experience have tested the Book. It has passed become and the more you’ll find that God can speak
through critical fires no other volume has suffered, to you loudly and clearly and supernaturally and
and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and miraculously and ecstatically, right through the
come out without so much as the smell of burning. reading of His Word.
—W.E. Sangster

◆ You grow by feeding on the Word of God con-
It is strange we trust each other, tinually, the cure for all life’s problems.
And only doubt the Lord;

We will take the word of mortals,
And yet distrust His Word. Please don’t neglect the Word, for it is food for
—A.B. Simpson your soul and gives you strength for the battle!
Read, study, memorize and enjoy it, and you shall
◆ have strength for your soul.
God makes a promise: Faith believes it; Hope —David Brandt Berg
anticipates it; Patience quietly awaits it!

◆ Oh that you would hear the Words of the Lord
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh prof- As streams that never run dry!
iteth nothing: the Words that I speak unto you, they That thine ears should be filled with their flowing,
are Spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). And thine heart should be ever nigh.

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Reflections © 1992 The Family
David Brandt Berg (1919–1994) was founder of The Family.
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R300 GP—March 2004 Topics: death, Heaven, loved ones waiting on the other side, faith

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