Understanding God's Word

Can God's living Word become more living? Not for God; He knows who He is, and He never changes.
For us, yes. That's why the Bible's progressive knowledge of our God is built on those who have answered their call to speak God's Word in spirit and truth in the wisdom and understanding of their time and space.

We grow in God's grace as the Holy Spirit teaches us line upon line and precept upon precept until the day dawns and the morning star shines brightly in our hearts. He must increase as we decrease, which is the same as renewing our minds to the new creation God has birthed in us. The same Spirit who spoke to us in the past speaks to us today. That same Spirit of God makes us one in the Son by God's grace by operating on the inside of us.

Growing in the knowledge of our resurrected Savior, Jesus Christ, is our responsibility for spiritual training and nourishment. God's responsibility is to train His kids in the right way to grow in His grace and not our efforts. Each of our gifts and callings is written in God's Word. Because they come from God's Word, God has made it possible for us to co-labor with Him for our eternal rewards by digging into God's Word with the helper. We should never read God's Word with head knowledge only because God's Word is written in spirit and truth.

First, we must be born of God by confessing our faith in Jesus's name above any other man claiming to be God or claiming another God. Then, we must recognize the difference between interpreting God's Word with our head because head knowledge relies on the law for self-glorification. We must ask the helper because He's our teacher. God is love, and love doesn't enforce its will on anyone unless it's protecting Her own. So, ask.

Whenever we read/hear the Holy Bible, we approach it with the attitude of a curious child attentive to being instructed by our spiritual parents. Yes, parents, because the Spirit and the Word are our teachers. They are the image and likeness of the unseen and seen Father, like us, in Him, male being the Word and female relative to being the Spirit in all believers-one spirit, one Lord, etc.

Hearing God's Word in spirit and truth is how this is done. Natural ears don't receive the things of God, so if we're not receiving Godly wisdom and understanding, it's because we're attempting to understand God without God. He's given us ears to hear because believers are new creations with spiritual ears tuned to eating spiritual food to become mature in Him, who, by constant use, have trained our senses to distinguish good from evil.

The Holy Bible is the source of all life because it operates not from man's mind but from Christ's. What a glorious thing it is to walk with Christ's mind in good times and bad times until God's love translates us into His everlasting glory.