“A Picture is worth a thousand words” – Saying from Chinese Proverb

• Bible often portrays various visual images or pictures to describe themes or topics (Psalms 23:1, Psalms 18:1 etc).
• Old Testament is full of images or visual representation of the things to come. In fact, Bible offers different images for the ‘Word of God’ itself.
• We find seven different images for the Word of God in the bible. This bible study lesson is the list of these images found in the bible.

1. The bible is Like a Double Edged Sword:
   • Hebrews 4:12: -”For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
2. Like Fire:
   • Jer 23:29: – “”Is not my word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?”
3. Like Hammer:
   • Jer 23:29: – “”Is not my word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?”
4. Like Lamp and Light:
   • Ps 119:105: – “Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.”
5. Like Food:
   • Mat 4:4: – “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
   • 1 Pet 1:25-2:2:”But the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.”
6. Like Seed:
   • 1 Pet 1:23: – “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.“
7. Like Mirror:
   • James 1:22-25: – “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.”

(There are few of the images, I discovered in the bible. If you have come across more, please share it here.)

More Bible Study Lessons:

• Blessed are Pure in Heart – Beatitudes – Part 6 of 8
• Jesus Christ – The Cornerstone of the Church
• Beatitudes: Blessed are Poor in Spirit – 8 Part Series
• Discover God’s Will – Practical Preparation
• Questioning God – Psalm 13