This was the Word of the Lord to His servant the prophet Jeremiah (23:28).
False prophets prophesied on every hand, saying, “I have dreamed,” and sought to cause the people of Jehovah to forget His name. They were stealing His words from His people, and using their tongues while saying, “He saith.”
And thus it is today. All around us are those who are spinning their theories, telling their dreams, and uttering the deceits of their own hearts. The Word of the living God is set aside, and the thoughts and imaginations of man’s mind are substituted.
Surely then the word to Jeremiah is applicable:
“The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath My Word, let Him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not My Word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”
All man’s wisdom is but folly before God. His conflicting opinions are but as the chaff which the blast of judgment will sweep aside. The Word of the Lord alone will abide. This is the wheat—the true food for every soul.
His Word is as a fire, and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. Wielded in the power of the Spirit of God man’s high thoughts and systems of error are brought to nothingness before it, for the conscience is laid bare, and the refuge of lies torn away.
Speak the word faithfully, believer. Whether it is your privilege to proclaim it to individuals or to companies, speak the word faithfully. If you have the Word, make it known. Suffer not carnal ease or natural cowardice to restrain you, but in love to Christ, and in love to souls who are being duped, deceived, and destroyed, declare the truth, obeying the voice of the Lord, who hath said,
“He that hath My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully.”