The Word of God is "living and active". Wow! Wrap your thoughts around that one. I can't help but smile when I drift back in my mind to just a few days ago as I read that Hebrews 4 passage to my youngest daughter. The look on her face exposed a less-than-comfortable reaction to this revelation and could only be described as a cross between bewilderment and terror. Imagine the small black (allbeit divine) Book mysteriously sitting up from its resting place there in the basket next to my "ugly chair" and scurrying about the house when nobody's watching. She stared at it uneasily for a moment or two so I felt it necessary to reassure her that, it's not gonna creep into her room late at night while she sleeps and mess with her stuff.
But it is alive. That part's for real (and still marvelously mysterious). It will change her life...give her a new life...a different one...better one. It will find it's way into her heart if she chooses to let it, and will renew her from the inside out...make her a new creation. Now that I think of it, from a personal standpoint, that revelation still bewilders me...it even terrifies me at times. A Book containing our only tangible connection to the Holy God...the Creator of all things! Here in front of me is His Word, teaching me to prize Him above all those aforementioned created "things" ...unveiling the mystery so that I can "hide it's words in my heart" rather than cling to the crevices of sin that cake the corners of my soul like rancid oil on a frying pan? I have the sweet privilege of soaking it up until that moment comes in my life that His Word alone can satisfy my deepest thirst...until there is nothing on earth that compares to the Word that is "sweeter than honey".
So I open to Psalm 73:25-26. It's words become my mantra...the banner over my life..."Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth there is nothing I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." This is the rare air I so long to breathe.