Bullets for the Battle

The Bullet of Direction: The Complex Confusion of Mankind’s Language!

When we consider how God has revealed Himself in language, using the complex and amazing skills He created for humanity, we began to grasp why the Holy Spirit’s Presence is so critical to guide and teach us what true revelation means. Almost all words, depending on context, can have a multitude of meanings. People can speak thousands of words yet find at the end of all their talking they have only “built bridges to nowhere”! But not our Lord! All of His words to us are bridges to our heart that have an assured destiny! Every word He spoke while on earth and speaks to us now is a “bridge word” that we can walk on in our journey to His Presence, which is life! “The words I speak to you are spirit and they are life” (John 6:63).

Read carefully the Apostle Paul’s insights into how our Lord’s words are life:
“The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” I Corinthians 2:10-14 (Emphasis added)

The Lord Jesus is well aware that humanity has a desperate problem understanding correctly what they hear and see. He quoted the prophet Isaiah when He explained the Parable of the Sower to His Disciples. The seed Jesus throws on the field of earth are His words! Some nourish the seed but most people don’t. "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND” (Luke 8:10, emphasis added). The Savior’s seed is the truth that is within every one of His words! “The Words I (Jesus) speak to you are life!” (John 6:63).

Without revelation about words we are blind and mute. Only when we establish and nurture a relationship to our Creator-Redeemer-Perfector God do we discover how to “put” the “in Christ” seed into our lives. We then begin to gain His “power answers” for living. Our Lord’s words alone, authentically understood, will sustain us and enable us to reign on planet earth! His words are our material and equipment with which we can build our “bridge over all the troubled waters of mankind’s mess.” The Savior’s Words are intended to become our bridge to His Presence! How is your bridge building coming along?