God's Legos

Do you know what a lego is? You're probably thinking of those interlocking plastic bricks that have been made since the late 1950s (believe it or not, some of us were living back then). But I was thinking more of the Greek word 'lego'. It means to join words together, as in a saying, and is used over 1400 times in our New Testament. They are words or sayings that are interlocked to convey or establish a systematic thought or system of related thoughts. They are not just a hodgepodge of unrelated words or sayings (like a pile of lego blocks). They are more like a lego city, with each word and saying building upon another to convey or establish some interrelated system.

This is how God's Word is. God's Word is not just 66 books of 1189 chapters of 31,173 verses consisting of some 775,000 words and some 2,730,000 letters. Men of God wrote the scripture over a time span of more than a thousand years, and the Holy Spirit inspired every book.

for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
(2Pe 1:21)

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
(2Ti 3:16)

Like Jesus, His word is a bread of life that feeds our spiritual person, and renews us day by day.

Do you need more faith? more hope? more joy? more love? Look to Christ and His word.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
(2Co 4:16-18)

Yours in Him,

Pastor B.