You are not responsible to make the word effective. You are not tasked with forcing belief. You are invited to remain faithful to the simple work of letting God’s word be heard. He knows how to use it.
Some days it feels as though words are cheap and listening hearts are rare.
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
Romans 10:17 (ESV)
Faith does not begin in a vacuum and is not sparked by personality, volume, or atmosphere.
Scripture tells us plainly where faith comes from. It comes through hearing, and not just any hearing, but hearing the word of Christ. God has chosen to use spoken truth, read truth, remembered truth, and patiently repeated truth as the ordinary way He brings people to belief.
That can feel unimpressive to us.
We often want clearer results or faster evidence that something is happening. Yet God is not anxious about the process He designed. He works through the steady presentation of His word, even when it seems to fall on distracted minds or indifferent ears.
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