Words Means Something!

My friend and I were out to dinner the other day. We were studying God's Word and talking about the end times. We started looking into the original meaning of the words and I came across the verse Psalms 25:14, which states, "The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear Him, and He makes known to them His covenant."  When I started looking at the meanings of the words, known in the original Hebrew is defined as a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, including observations, care, recognition, instructions, designation, and punishment. It also means to be advise, answer, cause to discern, make known and so much more. In this one verse, we, as believers are promised to have God's covenants, His promised revealed to us. Not only revealed to us but make us intimately known of His promises. To get this intimate knowledge the verse tells us we only need to be in a friendship with the Lord.

As a believer for most of my life, churches have never really taught looking into the original languages for the meaning of the words.  A few pastors have talked about the original languages, but that's as far as it goes. The free app e-Sword allows you to go verse by verse, word by word to look up the original words. What an amazing blessing it is to live in a world where we can look up these words to find out their meanings. For example, our word love is only one word. In Greek there are four words to describe the word love. When we read our Bibles today, we may not get the full picture of what was truly being expressed. If one word has such a beautiful meaning in the Psalms verse, think of how many other words have deeper meanings. God opening up His covenants to us is amazing. But when I read that God wants me to fully experience His covenants including advising me and giving me discernment that verse means so much more.

I may not understand why churches and leaders do not encourage us to look deeper into the meanings of the original texts, but I do know that I am going to start digging deeper. I am going to encourage those around me to look deeper into the words. God's Word comes more alive to me as I begin to understand His full love and promises are for me. As I grow in understanding, my relationship with God grows. This relationship allows me to praise Him in the good and bad.