“Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord”.
Colossians 3:16
John1:1-2 says that” In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God”. Again John says, through Him all creation was made and through Him only whole community can be saved to live for ever. The word bring meaning, purpose, power, grace, love and life to all who submit and obey His Words. So the Word must dwell in our mind. The Holy Spirit gives us understanding of the Word. The Word help us to bless the Lord with our souls always. That is why psalmist sings
”Bless the Lord O my soul, with all that is within me”. (Psalms 103:1).
We will be able to sing with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. ”Let the Word dwell richly” implies that allowing the Word to enter and grow in our lives. This will generate the fruit of the Holy Spirit love and joy in abundance in our lives. (Galatians 5:22)
His mercy and grace fills our heart with joy. We must show our gratitude by songs of worship and adoration. The Lord was closest to us in our past trials and troubles. He poured out His anointing of strength and courage on us so that we will be able to endure and hold on to the hope even when bad things happen it will turn out much better than before. The Word gives us great insight and wisdom than any or all of the best books. The worldly leaders lead the people like” the blind leading the blind”. They learn by trial and error. They keep falling in their lust for power .Their knowledge is inadequate or incomplete and their wisdom is not even initiated. Godly leaders have their inner eyes open and they are guided by the Word and the spirit of God.
As teachers of the Word, we need to hide the Word in our hearts and bring it out at the apt time. The Word is the book of instruction for the life of a believer. Word gives us discernment of our own thoughts as well as motive behind each thought. The Sermon on the mount teach us about the attitudes we need to cultivate in all our lives in order to be blessed. The miracles of Jesus demonstrate the power of God over nature, our bodies, minds and spirits .
Prayer
Heavenly Father give us the grace to hide your Word inside of us so we will be blessed and can bless others also. In Jesus name we pray.
Amen
Sol.Gigi Jacob