Saturday, September 16, 2017
Psalm 19:7 The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
ASPIRIN-SIZE WORDS
Customer: "I want to buy some acetylsalicylic acid."
Druggist: "Do you mean aspirin?"
Customer: "Yes I can never remember that word..."
Most people can remember and understand simple words more easily than "jaw breaker" terminology. In our Bible the Holy Spirit has presented mind-boggling truths in "aspirin-size" words.
For example: Scripture declares that Jesus is God and man in one Person. His divine and human natures did not remain aloof from each other like two kinds of wood glued together. Nor did they melt into just one nature making Christ not quite God yet super human.
Instead, the Son of God and the Son of man share the use of each others abilities just as powerful electricity and the wires in your toaster share their individual capabilities in order to make toast. In order to produce our glorious salvation the God and human parts in Christ worked together.
But see how the Bible presents these stupendous truths in "aspirin-size" words! Is our Savior both God and man? Answer: "Unto you is born ... the Lord" (Luke 2). "God was manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 1).
Did His two natures share the use of their abilities with each other? Answer: "Jesus went unto them walking on the sea" (Matthew 14). "But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, [He said unto the sick of the palsy], 'I say unto thee arise and take up thy couch, and go into thine house'" (Luke 5).
Did God and man in Christ accomplish our salvation by working together? Answer: "We were reconciled to God by the death of His Son (Rom 5) The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John 1).
The Holy Spirit is an excellent Teacher. By using aspirin-size words He enables all Christians to search the Scriptures daily, and to have the Word of Christ dwell in them richly.
