The other day my 6 year old said something so theologically significant that it stopped me in my tracks. I’m not sure if you are around kids much but as a father of 4 little boys, I find this happens more often than I ever expected.
So we were doing our morning Bible study time together and had just finished reading the beginning of Genesis. The boys were talking about the things that stood out to them from the passage. Here is my conversation with Noah:
Noah: It’s crazy that God could take a bone out of Adam and it didn’t even hurt him and then He could use it to make another person!
Me: Yeah, and He created Adam from dust. He even created the heavens and earth from nothing!
Noah: No He didn’t.
Me: What? Yes He did. He created them from nothing.
Noah: No He didn’t. He created them with His words!
Woah. Noah understood something about creation that I just dismissed. God’s words are not nothing. They are immeasurably powerful. While nothing existed, God’s words did.
I was struck by the importance and power of that truth my little boy laid out for me. I thought, “Do we really consider the power of God’s words?” “Do we truly comprehend the power of the Bible, the very words of God?”
I know the Bible is true. I know it is perfect. I know it is from God. In fact, I just preached about those things. But had I really stopped to contemplate the immense power of the words of God? The words that had the power to create? I’m not sure I did.
So I share this story with you for 2 reasons. First and foremost, recognize that your Bible is filled with the words of God, the words that have the power to create everything from nothing. Let’s not take that lightly. And second, never underestimate who God can use to speak truth.
Sometimes people ask me what the voice of God sounds like to me. Oftentimes it sounds like my wife’s voice as the Lord speaks through her. Yesterday it was the voice of a 6 year old boy.
Wise words from a child.