Becoming the Word

When we devote ourselves in obedience to the will of the Lord, we are actively pursuing Him with a life of dedication and practice in prayer, Bible study, and service.  The Lord is our aim; He is that by which all of our lives are to be focused and fixed upon.  Consistency is key as God requires faithfulness over time, not just single-serving faith but full-on, 24/7 believers.

The reality is that while we are following through in a life of dedication, our lives are being transformed, meaning that the life we live is made wholly different in kind from the life we once lived.  This is the miracle of sanctification: that our fleshly self is, through the power of God by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit, replaced with a new sanctified person.

Sanctification finds the flesh, our perishable parts, replaced with the imperishable spirit.  Flesh is grass, it withers and is scorched by the sun; people are like grass in perpetual states of perishing, while the Word of the Lord endures forever (Isa. 40:6-8, Psa. 102:11; 103:15; 1 Pet. 1:24).  Humanity is born in and of the flesh but as our beings are transformed by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and as the Scripture becomes the mode of our very cores, we become the spirit.

Our perishing self is to be replaced with the imperishable, which is the Word of God.  In a very real sense, as we engage in regular, dedicated Bible study, the Scripture becomes us.  Our nature, who we are, is reconstructed into the nature that it was intended to be.  Therefore, need to be so intimately versed and connected with the Word that it becomes who we are.

This requires more than mere memorization and intellectual ascent, it requires that we really meditate and dig in to the Word.  To become the Word of God demands that we spend so much time with it that we can speak it in our very own language, that it becomes us.  Although this is a daunting and lifelong process, how beautiful that we would strive to become the people that God desires most of us by the power of His Word and Holy Spirit working in us!