The Final Goal: The Power Of Words

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Read: 2 Timothy 3:14-17

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true. – 2 Timothy 3:16

There has never been a referee quite like Pierluigi Collina. Collina had a presence on the football pitch most footballers long for, and an authority to go with it. For 6 consecutive years he won the award for World’s Best Referee. In 2002 he was given the ultimate honour as he officiated the World Cup final between Brazil
and Germany.

Everyone knew they were in for a fair game when Collina took to the field. His words and decisions commanded huge respect.

Two thousand years ago a man named Paul wrote to his friend Timothy about the authority of words, but the
words Paul had in mind were in a totally different league than Collina’s. Paul was talking about the words of God (2 Timothy 3:16). Those words are authoritative in every single part of life: for what we should and shouldn’t know, as well as for what we must and mustn’t do. After all, if God made the world, He surely knows the best way to live in it. And above all, God’s Word teaches us to live for Him and God uses it to “equip His people to do every good work” (v.17).

There are all sorts of things which claim authority over our lives, but only the Word of God is really worth listening to. —Jon Lindsay

In the pages of the Bible, we learn the will and ways of the One who created us.