VOID

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall

accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:11

God’s word accomplishes God’s will. Sometimes we probably wonder if it’s doing anything, for

instance, when a sermon is preached and the crowd may seem quite glassy-eyed and rather

unmoved. We may be perplexed when the Gospel is preached and there are countless

individuals who seem quite resistant to it and have no interest in responding to it. We may doubt

its efficacy when we look at our country or our world at large, take a pulse on it, and find it so far

from Him and perhaps even quite happy to be as such. We may also find ourselves concerned

when we ourselves feel quite apathetic at the hearing or reading of it, which happens to all of

us, and quite a bit more than we often want to admit.

Remember the words spoken in Isaiah 55:11 today and contemplate this: God’s word has and

always will accomplish exactly what He intends it to achieve. If He wants to move the mountains

of a person’s doubts and ignite faith, His word will do it. If He wants to change the course of a

nation, His word will do it. If He wants people to hear it but that’s that for the day, that’s exactly

what it will do. If He wants to task us with sharing His word with others and they respond either

positively or negatively, guess what? His word will accomplish whatever He so intends to

ascertain.

God gave us the Bible with deep intentionality and a plan to accomplish myriad

objectives in the giving of it.

Our faith needs to stop being molded by the outcomes we think should be taking place and

rather put back in trusting that the plans of God are happening! They are unfolding before our

very eyes every day, and while we may not understand what we’re looking at, God does. God

knows where all things are leading and how He’s getting all of it where He has determined it to

go. God knows what His word is capable of, and He knows how to use it quite judiciously. Even

when you yourself are hearing or reading His word, God is accomplishing His plans, whether

you are aware of it or not. God’s word will provoke and prick a heart in an instant, whenever He

so intends it to be so.

We must kindle our faith to trust not in the outcomes, the perceived failures, the hoped wins, the

progressions we anticipate, but rather in the miraculous truth that God’s word is not returning to

Him void, but accomplishing what He pleases, prospering in the things for which He sends it.

Bring your heart and hope back to truths such as this which we must take by faith, but which

reward us with peace when we choose to embrace them. Even writing this today warms my soul

as I remember yet again that God is doing what He wants to do, how He wants to do it,

unthwarted by anyone and committed deeply to His glorious ends and our good.

Be blessed today!

Sam Stringer

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.

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