***Duden Dictionary Meaning ***
Wort – Word:
A meaningful unit of
language / a promise / a
short remark, statement,
or conversation.
Related words: term,
name, expression.
-- from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Recently I found The Book Thief by Markus Zusak at a thrift shop. Being a book person, I had to buy and read it. (It's a good book!) Part way through I was arrested by the above dictionary definition of "word," especially the second one on the list: a promise. A word is a promise. Pause and think on this.
A word is a promise
God's Word is a promise
Jesus is the Word made flesh
Jesus is God's promise
Jesus was also called Immanuel (which means "God with us")
Jesus is God's promise that He is and will be with us
God's Word is unbreakable, boundless, perfect
You can take Him at His word
He is with you
The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us"). Matthew 1:23
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. Matthew 28:20
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