Fire and Hammer. What changes us?
[A part of devotions series]
Each of us wants to change, with an effort of will, we will achieve new habits, with the new week we say that we will not be like that anymore. We expect our husband or wife to change. Living in a particular country, we believe that everything will change for the better, and the atmosphere at work where we go every day will be completely different. Changes are not easy, and for some people, they never come. We want changes from others, but we don’t want to change ourselves.
So where do you find the power to change?
Christians claim that there is no such power within a person that could change it, and all that surrounds it cannot claim a profound change in a person. They believe that only God’s Word, with the help of the Holy Spirit, can change a person.
God’s Word leaves no one indifferent. It works differently, because we are all different, and God knows it. The fire has a huge number of applications in our life: it produces heat, hardens the metal, changes the structure of the material. God’s Word is like fire: it warms our heart, hardens it when we are scared and changes us step by step. It is like a hammer breaking the rock of our ideas about life, truth, love, and peace. The word shows us a new path, a path of change.
The Word of God is only one way of salvation, a tool for your change, and an authoritative Word from God. Our faith, strength, love, and attitude toward God directly depend on our attitude to the Word.
“Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”
Jeremiah 23:29
