Surgery?

Interested in having surgery? I don’t know about you, but I’m not crazy about the thought of someone cutting my body open and taking things out. However, surgery sometimes is necessary in order to regain good health. To refuse surgery could be a foolish and potentially deadly choice.
Hebrews 4:12 tells us that the Bible is a sort of surgeon. It says, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
The Word of God (the Bible) is “quick” (that means living) and powerful, or active. It is like a sharp, double-edged sword that cuts right through any armor. It is not a physical weapon that does harm, but a spiritual tool: it cuts apart the soul and spirit. It slices right between the “joints” of your spiritual being because it reads your thoughts and your motives. The reason it can do this is because it is the Word of God. It has God’s power to know and to discern your life.
The Bible isn’t like a giant sword, hacking you up and chopping you down, but it is like a surgeon’s scalpel, carefully cutting away things that are dangerous and unhealthy from your spiritual life. God uses his Word to do “spiritual surgery” on your life.
If you are not reading the Bible daily and listening as it is taught and preached at church, home, or school, you are making a foolish decision that will cost you your spiritual health. I hope you make time each day to read the Bible. I hope you listen carefully whenever anyone opens the Word of God to teach or preach. I hope you are allowing God to use his “scalpel,” the Bible, in your life.