Watch/Listen
The Mouth of God
Brian Mashburn
June 21, 2009
Audio Player
The Mouth of God
If you open your Bible, and you open it to the very first page, and read the very first few words, there is a suggestion made there, if it is true, it is both profound to ponder and weighty with implications.
It says, "In the beginning God..."
If the suggestion that there is a God is true, would it not be the priority of our life to know Him? To figure out what He wants? To understand who He is, what He's doing and what He has to do with us?
Well, the very next word tells us what this God of the Bible did. He "created". And then the rest of the first chapter tells how He did it...by speaking.
We begin our exploratory study of "God's Anatomy" this week by starting with what the Bible starts with: the mouth of God. This creation chapter is 31 verses long, and in it, He speaks at least 15 times...creating, naming, instructing, revealing.
And praise God that God starts with His mouth. If there is a God, and if we need to know Him, then we need Him to have a mouth. We need Him to reveal Himself. Think about it: where we would go, what would we do, if it was on us to discover Him? If God did not speak and present Himself?
We would probably make stuff up about Him, build a religion filled with empty rituals and sacraments and rules and offer that up to the world as the thing God wants in our desperate attempt to feel like we are pleasing to Him.
Fortunately, we don't have to do that. Many people have, because they have a god that doesn't have a mouth, and does not speak.
But the God of the Bible has a mouth and does speak. And it teaches that God's mouth is life-giving, relationship-building, and life-saving.
Listen to Him.