For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. – Hebrews 4:12
In my line of work, I spend a lot of my time looking at vehicles that have been in accidents. I write damage reports and take down information to obtain the car value, so a settlement can be offered to the owner in the case of a totaled vehicle.
One of the first steps of assessing the value is to find the Vehicle Identification Number—the VIN. On the driver’s lower windshield and a few other places, a seventeen-digit VIN is written. When I enter that number into a web-based computer program and hit “decode,” it tells me the exact identification of that vehicle, down to the options packages available for it. There is security information, the year it was made, what plant it was made at, and even the paint color options. In short, the information given to me through the web-based program is very specific. When you consider all the millions of vehicles on the road across the country, it is an awesome thing to know that every single one has been cataloged.
This reminds me of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how it is individually specific for each one of us. God knows everything about us. He knows our personalities and our weaknesses, and also our hopes and motivations—the things that we might not tell anybody else. There are even things about us that we do not know ourselves, but He knows them and He has a way of exposing them to us. More often than not, that happens through His Word, which is “a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Have you ever had a time when you were reading God’s Word and all of a sudden it seemed like your eyes were opened and the Word just jumped off the page and became alive to you? That is His Word working in your life. God may be showing you something, giving you a blessing, or drawing a consecration. Whatever it is, it is specific to you right at that time. God identifies exactly what you need, and reveals to you His provision.
It is awesome to realize that God knows everything about each one of us. Let us not neglect to read His Word often, so He can show us how to grow stronger.