NOTES for Isa 55:10-11

When the prophets speak about the Word of God, they always have in mind something completely concrete and connected with their own spiritual experience. The Word of God is for them absolutely real, they really hear the voice of God so clearly, as we hear the voices of people who speak to us. God speaks with the prophets as we speak with one another. But it is not yet all, there is in the Word of God something bigger than the will and the revelation addressed to man. For God the word is even also a tool of His action in the world. With the word God creates the world; with the word He manages it. It can seem that the word that hears the prophet, and the word with which God manages the world are two different realities called in the same way by virtue of the peculiarities of the use of the biblical word, but it is not at all the case. Of course, the revelation received by a concrete person, cannot be compared with this power, by which God creates the world, or manages in it the movement of the natural forces.

But in both cases there is a substantial similarity: there and there, there is this sense, which does not exist in the nature and without which there is no universe. The science that studies the nature (whether it is the physical nature or the psychic nature), can find the answer to the question "how", but it does not look for the answers to the question "why so" or “what for so”. For God particularly these questions are the key. For Him, the world is full of sense and senses - sense as a whole reflecting His intention for the world, and senses as these purposes, which are put by Him in all that He created, from man to the stars and the sand.

Only man can understand in our world these senses put by God in things created by Him, and besides the senses are inseparable for man from the word: it is not accidentally if before even the fall, it is in particular to man who saw then the intention of God more clearly that was granted the possibility of giving names to everything that surrounds him and with what he has to interact directly. That is why the will of God is revealed to man in the word, not only when it is about a personal revelation, but also when it comes to the universe as a whole. Without the word, the world is a machine sometimes submitting itself to man, but more often hostile to him. With the word it [the world] is the meeting place of man with God, meeting that makes the man participant in the realization of God's plan, if only man himself wants it.