“What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” Psalm 8:4

God Visiting

Walk His Way Revisited

First posted in February, 2014

 Have you ever thought about what it must have been like for the writers of the Scriptures to receive Godʼs thoughts and Godʼs words into their own heads, and to write them on paper?

Were they overcome by fear? Adoration? Did they have a certainty of what they were hearing? Did they KNOW that this was a God-breathed, Spirit-inspired task? That the very words they wrote would be protected for all time, included in the Book of all books, read and cherished by people of every nation? Did they know that what they were experiencing and writing about would become the basis of the core belief of all succeeding generations?

The entire Bible was written by man but inspired by God. Every author had to be in Godʼs presence or had to be tuned in or positioned to receive the words from God. God didn’t put a pen in their hand when they were asleep and dreaming, and when they woke up, suddenly there was the Word of God beside them on the bed. No, they were RECEIVING God’s very words.

What kind of inspiration is that? What sense of the presence of God must they have had? I cannot picture all those men across all those years, being the sort of people that would sit down and listen and write what they heard, and how God imparted the words to them. Did they hear Him speak? Did they sense Him? Did they seem full of supernatural knowledge? All those writers across all those ages had to hear Him precisely in order to say the same thing without even a slight variation from truth.

Next time you open the Word of God, let the amazing fact of the Spirit-led inspiration—in fact, the very Spirit-authored Word—fill your mind with awe. God spoke in times past, and He speaks to us still. “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…” (Hebrews 1:1-2a).

Have you heard Him?

Heavenly Father, Iʼm in awe of the way You must have presented Your words to the prophets, how Your Spirit inspired them to write, and how you prepared them to know what You were saying. Grant that we, today, may also know what You are saying to us. In Jesusʼ Name, Amen.