Is God speaking?

The question is vital. Left to ourselves we are totally ignorant of God. Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?  God is beyond our understanding and we need him to reveal himself to us.

Creation is one of the main ways in which he does so. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. The sheer size of the universe and its amazing balance, variety and beauty reveal a great deal about the God who made it. In creation God shows his stupendous power, awesome intelligence and brilliant imagination. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

When we communicate with one another we rely heavily on words. God also speaks to men through words — the words of the Bible. Nearly 4,000 times in the Old Testament alone (500 times in the first five books) you will find phrases like ‘the Lord spoke’, ‘the Lord commanded’, and ‘the Lord said’. This is why it is claimed that no Scripture was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

In no other literature can we find scores of clear and detailed prophecies made by men claiming to speak from God, and later fulfilled to the letter. The odds against this happening by chance are too vast to be taken seriously.

Then there is the Bible’s impact on people’s lives. No other book has had such a life-changing power. Millions of people, over thousands of years, have proved by personal experience that the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

After 2,000 years no expert in any field has ever disproved a single statement in the Bible.³ The reason is this: All scripture is breathed out by God. We should therefore accept it not as the word of men, but as what it really is, the word of God.

3. If you have serious questions about the Bible read Nothing but the Truth, by Brian Edwards (Evangelical Press).

Job 11:7, Psalm 19:1, Romans 1:20, 2 Peter 1:21, Psalm 19:7-8, 2 Timothy 3:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:13