“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
Psalm 119:105
If you want a piece of equipment to operate at its maximum potential, you have to follow the manufacturer’s instructions. If you don’t follow the instructions, you may damage the product—or at least you won’t know what you can expect from it. Only if you follow the instructions can you expect the product to meet the demands specified by the manufacturer—demands that equal what the manufacturer designed and built into the product.
We are excellent, complexly designed, tremendously built, intricately put together pieces of equipment. But we don’t know what we can do. We can’t even imagine the full extent of our potential. Knowing this, God sent us a manual that contains a description of our parts. He said, “Now this first part is your spirit and the second part is your soul and the third part is your body. Now here is what the body is supposed to do…here is what the soul can do…here is what the spirit can do.” God also tells us the potential of this equipment called human beings. In His manual, He lists all the things we are capable of doing. When God first presented this piece of equipment called man, something went wrong. Instead of taking it back to the manufacturer to be fixed, we took it to a second-rate, second-class, unskilled technician. And look what he did. He muddled the job. We submitted God’s equipment and product to satan, who is an unauthorized dealer with no genuine parts. But God loved us so much that, even though the warranty had
run out, He decided to take back the product. Though someone else has tried to fix us and has messed us up, God is starting all over again—and He’s putting in His own parts. God is rebuilding and remaking us. He knows us better than anybody else, because He is our Creator. His Word, the Bible, reveals much about His attitude toward our potential.
God’s Word, the Bible, reveals much about His attitude toward our potential.
