Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! (II Timothy 2:8,9 ESV)
Unbound
The extent to which my dog is stupid is boundless. We had a pretty complex week. We have had overwhelming reasons to feel sorrow, stress, anger, fear, compassion, exhaustion, and tension. But my dog does not seem to be aware of any of it! He prances when I come home, he wags his tale at ANY voice, no matter how difficult the words, and always smiles in his doggish way. He is above and beyond all our complexity.
While I hesitate to compare my dog to the Word of God, there is at least one similarity. God’s Word is not bound by our situation. God’s Word does not hide when times are tough. God’s Word does not disappear when we are confused. God’s Word does not, in fact, react to our struggles or successes… but rather our struggles and successes react to God’s Word!
Paul notes that even though he is in chains, God’s Word is powerfully free, liberatingly free, comfortingly free, and challengingly free.
God’s Word is above and beyond our circumstances.
We are peculiar, we have something always unbound.