I'm going to use natural food as an example of what happens to help you understand the concept
When you eat an orange, you cannot see the vitamin C. When you eat a banana, you can't see the potassium. Yet, even if you didn't know those nutrients were there you would still receive the benefit of those nutrients simply because you ate the fruit. It's because the invisible things inside the fruit are actually the things that affect your health. That's why if you get a cold, you'll hear "eat oranges" because of the vitamin C it contains.
Think about this: The Bible works in a very similar way. It is filled with things you cannot physically see happening. Jesus said, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1)
FIRST POINT: Faith cannot be seen.
SECOND POINT: God calls faith a "substance." That means that faith exists in a reality beyond what we can perceive without five senses. It carries power and goes beyond what we can see in the natural world. And Jesus said, "Without faith itis impossible to please God" (Hebrews 11:6). Faith proves you trust God. FAITH is very important.
This is powerful .. Even when you read the Words of the Bible and don't understand one word of it, it's still getting down on the inside of you. It's like growing a holy garden inside your heart. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of heaven is within you" (Luke 17:21).
In a sense, the Word of God is God's DNA. As you plant God's DNA on the inside of you, you will become more like God. NOT AS GOD, "like" God .. "Let us make man in our image after our likeness." NOTICE THE PLURAL?? "Our" image and "Our likeness. That's GOD the Father and JESUS the Living Word.
When you read the Bible day after day something begins to change on the inside of you! You become stronger against sin, more peaceful, more grounded, less anxious, less fearful, the list goes on. Even though you can't physically see those changes happening. THEY ARE HAPPENING. That's why the Bible instruct in Romans12:2 to "be transformed by the renewing of your mind" .. renewing YOUR MIND in God's Word-the Bible -TRUTH at counts, never changes, never fails, and is eternal, not in philosophies, books, chanting, that is only temporary and you won't take with you beyond the grave! But that's not all.
In Mark 4:26 "The Kingdom of God is like a man that scatters seeds on the ground. He goes to sleep and wakes up daily and the seed grows automatically through the earths natural power without the man fully understanding how. The earth produces the crop itself .. first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain. This is a metaphore. The seed is the Word of God. The ground/the soil represents your heart. So, when you plant the Word of God in your heart every single day, these beautiful things begin happening in your life and the amazing part is verse 26 --you do not know how it happens! This parable illustrates how The Word-the message of God's Kingdom -grows mysteriously and steadily within you through God's powerful Holy Spirit when you read. So the bottom line is this: The Word of God has the power to transform your life in a way no psychologist, no philosophy, no self-help book, no Oprah's bookstore, no world system can match. All you have to do is plant the Word of God in your heart daily and GOD WILL DO THE REST. The Word of God is alive and active! IT IS!! Hebrews 4:12 "the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." The Bible also says in Proverbs 4:22 about the Word of God (Bible) .. for "they" (the words you read) are life to those that find them, and health to all your flesh" IF you do not let them depart from your eyes and keep them in the midst of your heart. IT'S A WONDERFUL TRANSITION from death to life. From old to new.
Until He Comes,
-Pat-
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