The Word is the Word

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you and you be found a liar. In today's world, people claim that God speaks to them. While, we realize that the LORD does speak, we are told explicitly to do not add to His words, regarding what He speaks. Many prophets are called liars in the time of Jeremiah because the LORD says He had not spoken to them. In our relationship with the LORD it is critical that we lean on His words and not our own. Honestly in our zealousness, we all have said God said this and He really hadn't. As His people, if we are going to be in His will, we must follow Him and not add our 2 cents to what we think He said. We have His word to confirm everything connected to His will for our lives. However, if we start adding to His words, the truth is smeared and we are found to be liars. The Canon closes in the book of Revelation with a warning Rev. 22:18-19 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things written in this book. There is no need to enhance or try to improve God at His word. The word is the Word. It is enough. Adding and taking away makes us liars. Lets us just trust in His Words and not mix our own with His truth. We only hurt ourselves. Prophets and leaders have to be careful because when errors are made in declaring His word, it is our error and not God's. This only happens when we interject our "thoughts" into what has been spoken by God and declared by God. The word to the wise is always sufficient, as my father used to say.