Trust the God Who Performs His Word

As you open with me to Joshua 1:8-9, may I remind all of you who already know this, and introduce any of you who do not—to the God whom we can know and trust through His Word. The chief way that God has revealed Himself is through His Word.

God Has Shared His Plan

The Bible you hold in your hands, and have backed up in the memory/storage spaces of your mind, is the Plan of God for your life; God's Word is single most valuable commodity that you can hold. This Book holds the only key, to making the right decisions about:

How to know God's choice for a mate, and for your career;
How to care for an aging parent;
How to respond to a rebelling child;
How to rebuild a strained or broken marriage;
How to proceed when in a dead-end job;
How to recover when in a hopeless financial mess;
How to react to a bad medical diagnosis; and
How to survive, and go on, through aching loneliness.

Those are just the start, to the endless supply of perfect answers and directions that God's Word holds for each of us who will seek Him and find His directions for our lives. So that leads me to this declaration: