Hebrews 4:12 (CB)

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

The Word of God gives us more than simply a collection of words from God, a vehicle for communicating his ideas; it has living, life-changing, and dynamic power that works in us. With the incisiveness of a surgeon’s knife, God’s Word reveals who we are and what we are not. It penetrates to the core of our moral and spiritual lives. It discerns both the good and the evil within us. God’s powerful Word will change us. We must not only listen to it; we must also let it transform our lives. Blessed is the man who “delights himself in the law of the Lord, and in this Law he meditates day and night” (Ps.1), Either your Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from your Bible.