136. God’s Word will Prosper
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
God promises that His Word will accomplish what He pleases, and that it shall prosper in the purpose for which He sent it. The ultimate Word turned out to be Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who accomplished what pleased the Lord, namely, the salvation of souls. The Word of God, Jesus, has prospered; He accomplished His mission. The Lord sent Him and the Word finished the job. The Word was made flesh and dwelled among us.
The Holy Spirit through the prophets and Apostles, who were inspired to write the words of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, wrote down the Word that goes out of the mouth of the Lord. This Word from out of His mouth is available to us today. We can trust it to be true and inerrant. We can trust it to accomplish what God spoke it for, what He sent it for, and what He wrote it down for. It is the vehicle and message by which the Gospel saves us. His Word is spirit and life, and it gives eternal life to all who believe it.
The promise is so sure that we can believe it for every aspect of our lives. Jesus quotes the words of Moses, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God [Matthew 4:4].” Jesus alludes to this very verse from Isaiah 55, “the word of God’s mouth.” Taken literally and figuratively, this is a bold and broad statement of truth that Moses and Jesus speak. It is incredibly hard to believe; in fact, it is impossible to believe without the work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit uses the Gospel to convict us of the truth of it and so to believe it, embrace it, and live according to it with all our heart.
Through the Word spoken and written to us we have the forgiveness of sins daily and richly; because of the Word we know that the Lord hears our prayers; by the Word we have an unerring guide to faith and life; because of the Word we live in the confidence of God’s love, God’s peace and God’s joy. We can even believe that the Word of God is useful and profitable for every need and issue of life. All aspects of life are covered. That is a promise from the mouth of the Lord.