We are coming to the end of our meditations on what the Word of God is. As we do so, we will spend a couple of weeks thinking about the consequences for us of all that we have seen. The first consequence is that the Word of God, like its Author, is unique. Through Isaiah in our text, God challenges us to find anyone with whom He is comparable - anyone who is His equal. To reinforce that He is unique, He mentions just one thing that He does quite simply but that displays incomparable power - the creation of the stars and maintaining every one of them in existence. In the face of such a challenge it is obvious that there could be no-one to compare with such a Being - He is utterly unique.
Since beginning this series, we have seen that God's Word is:
- His own production (unlike human books)
- God breathed - inspired by Him
- The Truth - utterly true in every respect
- Inerrant - it contains no errors on any subject with which it deals
- Pure and upright - it is morally perfect, defining right and wrong absolutely
- Everlasting - its truths and perfections will never pass away
- Authoritative - it declares the mind of God and teaches us what His will is for His creatures
- Special Revelation - it is the only place where we can read of the Savior, and of God's plan to redeem fallen humanity
- Completed Revelation - God's has put into His Word all that we need to know. Nothing can be added to it, nothing should be taken away from it
- Powerful and effective
- Powerful to create and sustain spiritual life
- Powerful to accomplish all His purposes. It cannot be read or heard without having an effect, which God has designed for it to achieve
- Powerful to reveal with certainty all that will take place. God has revealed certain things in His Word concerning the future, and those things are sure and certain
Can you think of another book that has any of these attributes? Yet the amazing fact is that we possess a book that has them all!
Perhaps it is because we do not believe it that we do not read it more, or perhaps these things do not seem as extraordinary to us as they should. Perhaps we have been blinded by our spiritual enemies so that the Bible doesn't seem at all special. Whatever the case, hopefully we will begin to recover our sense of wonder concerning the Bible, and will begin to read it more and more eagerly. There is no time like the coming week to make a start!