Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
I'll admit to being a bit of a sword freak. I love Mythbusters episodes where the teams examine swords and their capabilities. Heck, just today, I watched a video of a Japanese “modern samurai” performing amazing sword tricks. He split a full pea pod, just resting on top of a bamboo mat, in half, length-wise, severing the individual peas in the pod. He managed to split a small plastic sphere (a little larger than a BB) fired from an air pistol. He even cut an iron bar. It seemed like it had to be camera tricks.
But that demonstration (if real) pales to insignificance compared to God's word. God's word is always alive and active. It divides the wheat from the chaff, the sinner from the saint, sin from those who profess Jesus as Lord. What no blade made by or wielded by humans can do, God's word does. It takes us humans who are so intermingled with sin that it's hard to know where we end and it begins, and it carves away that which keeps us from God. That word is active and alive and working in and through you today.
Thanks be to God.
Doug Kuhlman
Visit http://www.allsaintspalatine.org for a full calendar and join us this Sunday for Lenten Sunday morning worship (with Holy Communion) at 8:30 and 11, with Education Hour at 9:45.
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