What does the word of God do in my life?

• When applied, it shows and gives wisdom
  

  Deuteronomy 4:5-6
  See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

  Job 28:20-28
  “Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell? It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds of the air. Destruction and Death say, ‘Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.’ God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm, then he looked at wisdom and appraised it; he confirmed it and tested it. And he said to man, ‘The fear of the Lord–that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.'”

We’ve been trying to supply our own wisdom from the first sin:

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

And we’ve been stupid ever since

Just think about it for a minute. How many of the world’s problems can be traced back to people acting out of fear? Or misinformation? Or an overdeveloped sense of personal right or entitlement?

• Makes our path visible:
  

  Psalm 119:105
  Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

• Shows my fears, offenses, and wicked ways and leads in the right path:
  

  Psalm 139:23-24
  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

• When applied, it has the ability to bless and change me and others:
  

  James 1:19-27
  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.

  2 Corinthians 3:12-18
  ….when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.