There is a difference between a surgeon’s skill and a stabbing. One is meant to heal and the other to harm. I know this because all my children were delivered to us by C-Section. Each time, I was brought into the operating room to watch as the surgeon used his scalpel to precisely slice open my wife’s abdomen, then reach in and pull out a miracle. In comparison, stabbing is malicious, destructive, and does not produce anything good.
The writer of Hebrews compares the Word of God to surgery:
“For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:12-13)
God’s Word is better than surgery because it exposes even more. Although the C-Sections exposed parts of my wife that I had never seen before, I was not able to discern her thoughts or the intentions of her heart. Only the scalpel of God’s Word can do that. However, just as each C-Section produced a miracle, so does surgery performed by the Word of God.
Before our doctor performed surgery, we had to sign a form permitting him to do so. This, too, is similar to scriptural surgery. Although God’s X-ray vision has already made a diagnosis, the surgery is optional. Are you allowing the Word of God to pierce and then to heal?