Yesterday we talked about the inherent power of the Word of God. As Isaiah wrote, the Word shall not return void but it shall accomplish that which the Lord desires for it to accomplish. Just this week I was reminded of this truth again, during a conversation with a man named Tom. I met him twenty years ago while playing racquetball with my father-in-law. Tom was an unbeliever and wasn’t interested in the ways of God. But for some reason after racquetball my father-in-law was prompted to visit him at his home. So with Bible in hand he stopped at his house and asked if he could share a few verses from the Scriptures. That was a night Tom will never forget. He politely listened and then my father-in-law graciously thanked him for listening and left.
Tom told me this week, twenty years later, that the only thing he remembered was that as soon as my father-in-law left, he said to his wife, “Get me a beer!” Now picture this–his teenaged son was lying on the couch in the other room listening while my father-in-law was reading the gospel from the book of Romans. Several years passed, but there was no apparent influence from that visit. That is, until I heard the rest of the story this week.
Both Tom and his wife came to know the Savior, as did their teenaged son. Today Tom is an elder and pillar in the church and his son–who was sitting in the other room listening to the Words of God–well, he is the pastor of the church!
When you take God’s Word in-and give it out-you can expect great things to follow. The Word truly is the power of God.
