“Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” (Col 3:16)
Letting the Word of God dwell in us richly as we minister is the key to advancing the Life of the Word in others. Jesus used the parable of the sewer and the seed to illustrate that the Word of God contains life for the hearer.(Lk 8:11-15). As Jesus sows his Word in us, so we are supplied with seed to sow into others (2 Cor 9:10). We understand this principle, but hardly see the Life that is at work in the seeds we plant in others.
God works beneath the soil, bringing life to the seeds that are His. It is He that gives growth, and not we ourselves (1 Cor 3:6). When we realize that the seed is so precious to God that He will take care of it, doesn’t that make it work planting the Word of God into others’ lives? I’d like to encourage you today, whatever your ministry is, to speak that Word of God which dwells richly in you. Amen
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