If God wrote you a letter, would you read it?

I heard a song, “if God wrote you a letter would you read it?”

It got me to thinking; God did write us a letter, the Bible, the inspired word of God.

Some people think the Bible is just a book, agnostics and atheists take no stock in the Bible.

Jesus said to some of the Jewish religious leaders of his day. “My word hath no place in you” (John 8:37).

We need to ask ourselves, “What value does the word of God have in my heart?”

• Have you taken time to nurture the seed of the word?

• Have you watered that seed by praying, meditating, and speaking God’s word in faith?

1 Peter 1:23 “being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”

• NLT translation: “... but this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.”

God’s word should occupy a place of honor in the heart and mind of every believer. His word should have a place of final authority. I like it the way one man said it. “When the Word has first place in your life, you are only a half a step from your harvests- no matter what harvest you need.”

When you make the word of God’s first place in your life and start acting on the Word it becomes the reality in your life. Real faith knows the blessings of God are for the believer.

Instead of trying to believe, we need to act upon the Word in faith. Act like the word is true. Whatever you’re believing God for, act like His Word is true for you.

That song, “If God wrote you a letter would you read it?” Well, He did write you and me a letter, the inspired word of God. The Bible, especially the New Testament, is God’s word for us today. The epistles from Acts to Jude are the letters to the church today; they are God’s inspired letters to you, the Christian right now. Faith is an action; it puts God’s word into practice. A definition of faith, “if you believe, you will act,” but how can you act if you do not know God’s word.

Hebrews 11:1: “... Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Confession goes right along with faith. How can you believe and confess and act on God’s word if you do not take it in. Remember faith is an action word. That is why it is so important to get the word of God into one’s self, so you can speak it back, by confessing God’s word.

God’s blessings, salvation, deliverance, healings are all there, but you have to believe for them. Like salvation you were not saved until you believe for salvation through Jesus Christ. That is why we need to read the letters that God gave us. Sometimes we hear teachings that don’t line up with the word of God, but if we take in the word of God we won’t to be misled.

Remember; cultivate the word of God by praying, meditating and speaking the word in faith. It is not necessarily how much you read of the Word of God in one day but what you have taken in to your “inner most being,” your spirit, and you do that by meditating on that scripture and praying. Take time to study out that particular scripture that God seems to enlighten you on.

The more you study God’s word, the more you realize it is God’s love letter to you and the rest of the world, to those that believe.

Lavon Barve ministers through Cup of Life Ministries in Wasilla, AK.