All in God and His Word

Wresting the Church from the Hands of Man

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, God and His Word

What do we do when we recognize that we have been wrong in a biblical practice or belief? Perhaps we find that we have made a liturgical practice out of something we have considered to be the Word of God that was actually of man, and not of God after all. What should we do? How should we face this and admit our failure or address something we find to be a material heresy? Are we brave enough to face our mistake before God and man or are we doomed to a life of spiritual suffering in false worship? Friends, in such cases we must gather bravely in contrition as a church and pray for God’s forgiveness.

Faith, and the Workings of God’s Word in Us

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, God and His Word

Is God’s Word at work in us? This is a question that challenges us because inevitably we ask ourselves, “what does that actually mean?” Does it mean that we ask, and the work is His to assign? Does it mean that His Word is an expression of His will, and that the work is our striving to complete it? Is His Word a promise to us, and the work how that promise comes alive? Or perhaps His Word is a lesson in life, and the work is how it is being taught to us. Each of these are examples of how God gives His Word and how it works within us. Do you believe His Word is His Bond? Or perhaps the first question we should ask ourselves is “do I believe that the Word and God are one and the same?”