The Transforming Word: Changing Lives
Reading God’s Word opens our souls to Him and lays us bare before His gaze.
The Transforming Word: Changing Lives
The Bible is our rock. In tough times, we Christians have learned to run to it for comfort and encouragement. Over the next few days, we’ll look at how to grow from a 2000 year old book that many people see as irrelevant.
Something happens to us when we read God’s Word. It’s not just ink on paper. God is present in His Word. The book of Hebrews says that the Word of God is living and active—and that’s not like any other book you or I know. The Word pierces our souls when we read it:
Hebrews 4:12–13
“For the word of God is … piercing … and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.”
Reading God’s Word opens our souls to Him and lays us bare before His gaze. This is why so many people won’t read their Bibles—it’s uncomfortable. The Word exposes us, revealing what’s really in our hearts. That can hurt when we’re already carrying pain. But the very Word that exposes our wounds is the same Word that heals them:
Isaiah 43:18–19
“Behold, I will do something new … I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.”
The Word of God can bury our past. It reveals a God who cares deeply about us, who forgives us, and who offers us a future and a hope. The Bible doesn’t just remind us of who we were—it teaches us what we can become when Christ lives in our hearts.
That’s the encouraging truth about a Book that opens up our wounds: it is there to bandage and heal them, to set us in a good place where our past can no longer follow.
Have you allowed Christ that place in your heart? Maybe that’s why you’ve been avoiding His Word or staying away from church. Pick up your Bible. Open it. Read it. Let it change you.
Hosea 6:1
“Come, let us return to the LORD.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.”
God’s Word doesn’t expose us so He can shame us—it reveals who we are so He can restore us.
Where might God be inviting you to let His Word heal what’s been hidden?
