9-5-2022

Good Morning All,

            Genesis 1:3; “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”

      “Let there be light,” and there was light.  It doesn’t get much simpler than that.  Yet think about what this entails.  Think about all the things in the universe that produce light and how long they have produced light.  Even as I sit here writing this; it is light outside, sort of bright.  It is supposed to be cloudy tomorrow but even then, light will be produced.  As we plant our garden, light plays a huge role in the production of tomatoes and everything green.  Think of all that energy.  Think of how much light that is.  We have more than enough light.  Most of the light doesn’t even come to the earth.  The whole back half of the sun is producing light right now and we will never experience. 

    Think of all the stars that exist and all produce light.  Even things that are not stars produce light.  Anything that produces enough friction will begin to glow; to produce light.  “And God said,” that was all it took and more light than you and I could ever imagine, measure, use or contemplate came into existence.  Nothing in our life could ever compare to this power.  Nothing in our human existence could ever produce as those three words; “and God said.”

    The incredible power of God’s spoken word.  We often think of it when we see lightening or hear rolling thunder.  We often think of it when we look at the majesty of mountains and the awe-inspiring grandeur.  Perhaps when we see a volcano erupt or the seas swell and fall, and we think “all this with a spoken word; and God said.”  We see the power and we marvel that everything that exists; exists because of God’s spoken word.

    Yet it is not just power, awe and majesty that we see in God’s word; we see God’s infinite love and majestic grace.  We see this love in the words “It is finished.”  We see it in the words “come unto me all you who labor.”  We see it in the words spoken to the prisoners “come out!”  We see it in the healing invitation of Isaiah, “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat!  Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.  We see it as God speaks and his words heal us, restore us, recreate us, and give to us live.  We see his word, his breath, filling us with his life-giving Spirit.  We see it when that spoken word declares us holy.

    God spoken word changes our life.  God spoken word gives us hope and brings us peace.  Do you hear his word?  Do you hear him speaking to you?  He speaks to us every day thrown his holy Word, the Scriptures, and he speaks to us through his sacraments of Baptism and The Lord’s Supper. We hear his words to receive his mercy.  In his words we have all that we need.

Gracious Father, when you speak, things are forever changed.  You spoke the word and you changed me.  You changed me from a lost and condemned person into a redeemed and loved child.  Be with those who do not hear you voice.  Be with those who do not hear your words of grace and miss the joy of your saving words.  Open the ears of the lost that they may know your peace.  In the precious name of Jesus our risen /savior we pray, amen.

God’s Peace,

Pastor Bret