Our Words Become Flesh

Thoughts Shared After Watching "Jesus of Nazareth"

1/16/1999

Hi family! Several nights ago a few of us watched “Jesus of Nazareth.” What follows are some thoughts that were shared. : )

“The WORD became flesh...” “Jesus is the Son of God.” God spoke and His words became a baby, His Son; His words became something real. In the same way, our words become flesh—they produce babies. If we have bad attitudes, jealousy, criticalness and selfishness flowing out of us, or are just pessimistic all of the time, and view it as our “job” in life to say the most negative things (“I’m just being realistic!”) as some “favor” to others to protect them, we are walking in EVIL. Those things will bear fruit in our lives and will also affect the lives of others. Your children, your neighbors, your coworkers—everyone will be harmed by the negativism. Jesus was not, and IS not like this, and you’ll find yourself lonely and fruitless if you live this way, even if you THINK you’re doing everyone a favor by being this way. The same is true if we sow seeds of kindness, love, good attitudes or if we turn a bad attitude into a good one—the words have substance, they produce babies.

“The Word became Flesh and dwelt among us.” The faithless, discouraged, selfish, critical words... or the faithful, merciful, kind, Loving, upward-looking positive encouraging words that we allow to come forth from us will become a reality in some form or another, and will thus dwell among us, either defiling—or strengthening—many. This is why it is essential that we allow ourselves to think and speak only in faith... (the substance of things unseen and hoped for!). Since reality of our words will be birthed and will dwell and grow up among us, how great is our responsibility to be Faith-Filled!

Another thought shared that night:

Jesus was standing outside of Lazarus’ tomb kneeling down praying. After He stood up He said, “I thank you Father that you heard my prayer...” The point was made that Jesus wasn’t going back and forth in His mind whether His Father wanted to raise Lazarus from the dead. Also with us when we approach the Father about something specific, the wrestle that we have is on a different plain than that. Our wrestle is to clear away all the imaginations such as, “What are people thinking of me,” selfish motivations, unbelief, insecurities and fear, and come to the place where our spirit connects with His and we know that He has HEARD us.

“This is the assurance we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And IF we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him” (1Jn. 5:14 ).