The Sure Word

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” There is a type of mysticism that has moved into mainstream Christendom that concerns me greatly. Basically, it teaches that one can go from infancy to maturity without any growth in between, thereby negating the Bible as the means God uses to get from one place to the other. Those with mystical tendencies never speak of the necessity of the Word of God, but, rather, glory in their personal experiences. In other words, they short cut the God-ordained means for their individual experiences.

These types have a God of their own making. Their created Deity is characteristically known by feeling, not faith. Because of this, there is a necessity of constantly scraping their “innards” by morbid introspection. There is a habitual examining of every motive and action, leaving them very little time to live the Christian life.

The infallible Word of God is the only safeguard against one’s fallible feelings. It is the one and only source that the prophets, apostles, Jesus, and New Testament writers depended on. Peter had an experience on the Mt. of Transfiguration, where he heard a voice from Heaven. Yet when recounting this event in his second epistle, he says we have “a more sure word…” (The Word of God). And so do we!