Many years ago, I received word in a very unusual way from a very unusual messenger.
The word was that, I had a very great inheritance and that there was a simple but very profound thing I had to grasp in order to take hold of the inheritance
Hhmm….., that is a bit strange, I thought to myself. Me? An inheritance for me? Is this a joke or what? I am just an ordinary guy from a very humble background. Who could possibly have left me a very great inheritance?
Grr, grrr(clearing my throat), excuse me sir - I called to the messengers attention;
Did you say an inheritance for me?
He nodded, twice, in agreement.
Are you really sure? Don’t you think you are in a wrong address? I mean, what’s going on here? Came the rather bemused questions from myself.
Calm down dear, came the reassuring answer from the messenger. In fact he went on to say that the inheritance is incomparable to anything I can imagine, it cannot be measured and neither can I put value to it and that the only thing like he said before, that I need to do is to take hold of something and make sure that it is with me all the time.
At this point, I even became more curious and a little bit frustrated, yet I could not ignore the fact that the messenger, unusual as he was had a message though I couldn’t put my head round it yet.
Ok mister, off with the parables and ‘beating around the bush’ I said, albeit with a sense of nervousness on the inside of me.
First of all, who are you? And what is this thing I need to take hold of?
I am your messenger and the thing you need to hold of, well, it is as silver, purified and refined seven times & you can take hold of it anytime you want and before I could say anything, flash! He was gone.
I was left confused, astonished and frankly, very, very curious.
I thought about those last words: “As silver, purified and refined seven times!”
I could not make sense of it and though very curious, I was very helpless. The messenger had vanished. I tried to imagine something as pure as what the messenger described but it was all blank to me.
Well, I carried on with my life as if nothing happened, but the last words from the messenger kept resonating in my mind from time to time.
A couple of years later, I found myself reading theses words from a very famous book:
“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times” Psalm 12:6
I was about to read the next sentence, when for some reason unknown to me, I found myself re- reading that line over and over again: The words of the LORD are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
And, bang! Like light bulbs being switched all around me, I had this great epiphany that this were exactly the messengers words to me a couple of years ago.
That is it!!! I almost shouted to the top of my voice, it is the word of the LORD! It holds the key to my inheritance!
It was a moment of great revelation but also one of awe and great humility.
How could something so pure, so potent and so mighty be so freely given and available to all rather than perhaps be reserved for the nobles and the aristocrats. I was deeply humbled to know that I was called to take hold of this great key.
With this great revelation also came an insight as well, that is; to take hold of God’s word is to believe His word without doubt.
I found myself being reminded of the many great men and women of faith who took hold of Gods word; examples among many include; Abraham and the promise to be a father of many nations, Moses when he was to deliver the children of Israel, Noah who listened to the LORD and built the Ark, King David and the promise of the messiah coming from his lineage, Mary who in faith replied to the angles message- let it be to me according to your word, Apostle Paul when the LORD told him that “my grace is sufficient for you” and the list goes on and on.
And, the LORD has never stopped speaking since the day the day He spoke those immortal words in the beginning when darkness was upon the face of the deep: “And God said……” Genesis 1:2
Brothers and sisters, God is still saying something to you and to me this very day, question is, are we listening?
What position does the word of God hold in your life?
God can speak to you through circumstances, through other people, through the bible and a whole host of ways He chooses to. And once you take hold of God’s word, be assured that; you have a great gem in your possession.
Remember,………
“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times”
You can’t possibly go wrong with such level of tried and tested purity, can you?
I don’t think so.
Thanks for your attention, speak to you soon a gain
Peace & Love
Sterling.
