Proverbs 30:5 “Every word of God is
pure; He is a shield to those
who put their trust in Him.”
I read a thought-proking devotional
today about the Bible, the Holy Scriptures and the Word of God that I’d like to
share today. When the inspired writer of Proverbs testified here that God’s
Word was “pure” (צָרַף tsaraph),
he did not use the usual word for, say, moral purity or metallic
purity. Instead, he asserted in effect that every word of God had been refined
and purified, as it were in a spiritual furnace, so that any and all
contaminants had been purged out, leaving only the pure element.
The same truth is found in the great
Psalm of the Scriptures. “Thy word is
very pure: therefore thy servant loves it” (Psalm 119:140). David used the same word in another Psalm,
where it is translated “tried” in the sense of “tested for purity.” “As for
God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried. He is a buckler to all
those that trust in him” (Psalm 18:30).
The word for “buckler” in this verse is the same as for “shield” in our text.
Thus, God equips with a perfect shield against the weapons of any foe, because
“His way is perfect” and “every word” in Scripture has been made “pure” before
the Spirit of God approved its use by the human writer.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for
every good work.”
This surely tells us that the human
writer of Scripture (that is, Moses or David or John or whomever), with all his
human proneness to mistakes or other inadequacies, was so controlled by the
Holy Spirit that whatever he actually wrote had been purged of any such
deficiencies. Thus, his final written text had been made perfectly “pure,”
free from any defects. This control applies to “every word,” so that we can
legitimately refer to the Scriptures as verbally inspired and inerrant
throughout.
As the apostle
Paul stressed, our spiritual armor in the battle against evil is “the shield of
faith” and “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephesians 6:16-17). I hope that you were inspired as I was. Blessings.
In Christ,
Brian
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