Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
These are challenging times and the moment we face a crisis we tend to run to the phone, take people’s opinion or rely on facts and reports, we tend to speak as the people of the world speak. In this verse Isaiah commands to go to God’s word, the bible, wherein believers ought to consult on, what God has to say of the situation. The law is God’s commands and testimony is about what God did for His people and which is recorded in the bible.
Here Isaiah says if we do not speak according to the word, it means there is no light in us. Who is this light? John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” So, this verse indicates that Jesus is the light and Isaiah says if we speak not in agreement to the word of God, we don’t have Jesus in us.
Exodus 6:29 that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the LORD; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you.”
Here the Lord instructs Moses to speak to the Pharaoh all that He says, we are asked to speak to the Pharaoh in our life the words that God has to say. Who is the Pharaoh in your life that ties you down from fulfilling your destiny and God’s plan? Is it sin, is it sickness, is it a situation at work? Speak to it with the word of God and instead of speaking about the situation day and night.
Jeremiah 1:7 But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am a youth, ‘Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, and all that I command you, you shall speak. Here the Lord says don’t say you are youth, you are sick, you have debt, you are a failure, you can’t do this, you cannot make it, you have no future, you are useless etc.
Say what I have commanded to say to you says the Great I AM!!
Jesus in Mark 11:22-23 said three things, have faith in God, don’t doubt, believe and say what you believe, speak the word of God, then this mountain that stands before you will be cast away.
In Jeremiah 23:29 the word of God is compared to a hammer and fire that no obstacle big or small, can stand before it’s power. It is the word of God that breaks fetters and iron bars, sets you free, heals, delivers, restores, saves.
Speak the word of God into your life and situations. When you declare Psalm 23:6 “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever”, instead of saying what a dreary, miserable day it is, then SURELY mercy and goodness shall follow you each day.
Hebrews 4:12 affirms this: For the word of God is living and powerful.
Sol.Lalitha Menon