 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. - Isaiah 55:11 KJV
We are blessed in this day and age to have the Bible at our fingertips. I have multiple physical copies of the Bible; plus every smart device I have has a Bible app. We have God’s Word with us wherever we go. The word of God is not just scripture but our weapon. It is what God has given us to guide us, protect us, and for us to defend ourselves against the principalities and powers of this world. Jesus himself used the word of God against Satan when he was tempted in the wilderness. (Matthew 4:1-11)
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 One of the things I love to do when visiting family in Michigan is drive around and look at all the farm fields. We don’t have fields in Florida like they do in Michigan. In the fall the farmers set up stalls in their front yards and you can buy the best produce. One of our last visits was in August before the farmers started harvesting. Periodically, I saw something that puzzled me. I would see a field of soybeans. Nothing strange about soybeans, but it was the random stalks of corn that would be growing in the midst of them. It wasn’t every field, but randomly fields. I asked my brother-in-law what that was about. He said it was called “volunteer” corn. The harvest the year before had been corn and during harvesting some had fallen. Unbeknown to the farmer, it would grow alongside the soybeans. This struck my heart.
 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that [Jesus] sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, And stood at his feet behind [him] weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe [them] with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the ointment. - Luke 7:36-38 KJV
She came that day with every intention of anointing Jesus. She was prepared. The ointment she carried was probably one of her most precious possessions. Alabaster was used to store expensive perfume, some costing a year's living expenses. Alabaster kept the ointment pure from contamination. Many times the vessels were even sealed with wax. But something happened when she walked into that room behind Jesus.  An old hymn goes through my head.
“All to Jesus I surrender, All to Him I freely give; I will ever love and trust Him, In His presence daily live. I surrender all, I surrender all. All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all. All to Jesus I surrender, Humbly at His feet I bow, Worldly pleasures all forsaken; Take me, Jesus, take me now.” All. Three little letters. Such a deceptively small word. I wonder if because it is so small that we rarely feel that it truly encompasses everything.  It's so unique how God talks to us all differently. I have learned that if God has put something on my heart I need to write it down. It always seems to come up later. It may be while talking to my children but it always comes up. I even had one thing come up years later and use it in a lady's Bible study.
Every year about this time I start focusing on my word for the year. As the year was closing, I didn't think I had my new word. Then I realized as soon as I mentioned it to my mother that I did have it. My word was something God had been putting on my heart for a while but I thought it was going to be used in a different way. So funny how He does that sometimes. |
