Every Sunday morning, I watch the legos. They’re always right at my feet during corporate worship. The bright colors gleam at me as I follow along with the rest of our church body. Quiet, but captivating; these legos sometimes leave me entranced. And they’re never ever organized in the same way.

Truly, my focus isn’t those legos, but rather the very active, curious 6 year-old tinkering with them.

He began worshiping alongside our family when he turned five. He’s our only boy and a more tenacious yet tender soul never lived. I kind of love how savage he can be at times. It is both exhilarating and challenging all at once!

But here, in corporate worship… I honestly couldn’t have predicted what would happen. Well, honestly…I expected noise. Maybe even some commentary or a little clamor. But, as he always does, this boy surprised me.

We can thank the legos for that.

Every Sunday, my precious boy excitedly opens that same lego box with anticipation. He looks forward to this special building time weekly. This could be because the box doesn’t come home with us. It stays there, tucked under our church seats, waiting for him. And every time we go, he beholds the box as if for the first. He is enrapured.

Here’s the kicker: the legos haven’t changed(mostly because I don’t think to bring a new bag from home)! It’s the same assortment as the week before.

And as I admired my little boy’s ingenuity yesterday, I was struck that those legos point to something greater: God’s eternal Word.

I love what the Westminster Larger catechism shares concerning this:

Q. 4. How doth it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God?
A. The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God, by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation: but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able fully to persuade it that they are the very Word of God.

Hos. 8:12; 1 Cor. 2:6-7, 13; Ps. 119:18, 129; Ps. 12:6; Ps. 119:140; Acts 10:43; Acts 26:22; Rom. 3:19, 27; Acts 18:28; Heb. 4:12; Jas. 1:18; Ps. 19:7-9; Rom. 15:4; Acts 20:32; John 16:13-14; 1 John 2:20, 27; John 20:31.

Q. 5. What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A. The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.

2 Tim. 1:13.

What do we know? God’s word is:

• Pure(Proverbs 30:5)
• Perfect(Psalm 19:7)
• Wholly true(Psalm 119:60)
• Our source for salvation, exhortation and equipping(2 Tim. 3:15)
• Conclusive and active(Hebrews 4:12)
• brings glory to God(Psalm 119:105)

There is so much more to it, but what the legos highlighted for me is the abounding illumination of the word.

Though this book never changes, there is always treasure to mine from these precious pages. May we, by God’s grace, ever have eyes to see and ears to hear.

Like the Psalmist, may we pray: Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your Law – Psalm 119:18

Sus