Check out this insightful and encouraging quotation from A.W. Tozer on the word of God as we get ready to hear God's word this Sunday.
The facts are that God is not silent, has never
been silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second Person of the Holy
Trinity is called the Word. The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s
continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind for us put into
our familiar human words.
I think a new world will arise out of the religious
mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which
was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking. The prophets
habitually said, “Thus saith the Lord.” They meant their hearers to understand
that God’s speaking is in the continuous present. We may use the past tense
properly to indicate that at a certain time a certain word of God was spoken,
but a word of God once spoken continues to be spoken, as a child once born
continues to be alive, or a world once created continues to exist. And those
are but imperfect illustrations, for children die and worlds burn out, but the
Word of our God endureth forever.
If you
would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it
to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which
you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing; it is a
voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God. page 82.