The “word” is simply the power of creation … or the power to motivate intelligence to change of its own free will and choice.

Intelligence cannot be forced. It has to choose, or to be persuaded.

The capacity to communicate a possible outcome, and the pathway to that outcome, is they key.

It allows intelligence to then process the various options, and to willingly choose the optimal option.

God is God not only because He possesses the power of communication (and hence He is able to get through), but also because He has the power to effect the optimal option with the optimal outcome.

Consider the following analogy to explore this idea in greater depth.

It was said it took great faith for Brigham Young to enter the Salt Lake Valley back in 1847.

Why was that?

Consider the following reality.

Most people in Brigham Young’s shoes would have seen a valley as it was – a barren wasteland full of sagebrush and maybe a single tree in the entire Salt Lake valley.

Since they would have seen a barren wasteland, they would have treated it as a barren wasteland, and since they would have treated it as a barn wasteland, it would have remained a barren wasteland.

However, when Brigham Young was in a wagon at the top of the canyon overlooking the Salt Lake valley, he had a heavenly vision where he didn’t see the valley as it was, but he saw it as it was to become.

And that is where the faith came in.

For the vision of what the Salt Lake valley soon departed, and he was left to seeing the valley as it currently was with his physical eyes.

Notwithstanding, Brigham Young believed and demonstrated great faith.

He didn’t see the valley as it was – a barren wasteland – but he saw it as it could become – a fruitful garden.

And since he saw it as God saw it, he treated it as God saw it, and since he treated it as God saw it, in process of time it transformed into how God saw it.

In short, we often use words to communicate how we see things, or how we see the potential of things.

If we don’t have much faith or hope for something, our words clearly communicate this hopelessness.

If we have faith and hope that something can become better, our words will back up our bright outlook on the future.

Whether we realize it or not, our words have tremendous power when they are heard and received.

They nudge us along, either up or down. Step by step we change either for the better or for the worse.

As humans, we often see each other as we currently are at best, and at worst, we only see the weaknesses and the flaws in each other.

We gossip, we backlight, and we delight in tearing each other down.

Words have power, and when we act in this way, we are not acting in the way that is becoming of our Heavenly Father.

Final thought – our Heavenly Father doesn’t see us as we currently are (with all of our weaknesses, shortcomings, flaws, etc) … rather, He sees us as we can become. And since he sees us as we can become, He treats us as we can become (encouraging us along the way via the word … in whatever form His communication to us might take). And since He treats us as we can become, in process of time as we come to fully embrace the love that He has for us, we change to become that which He sees us becoming – in our full potential and happiness.

(Note: it is instructive to note that one way Satan injures us – or robs us – is through his lies that we come to believe as firm truths. Such things as our parents, our neighbors, our coworkers, our bosses, our acquaintances hate us, are out to get us, have evil intentions towards us. Yes, there may be instances where there might be truth to this. Having said that, when Satan can places wedges between people and divide them, much bitterness, heartache, and paid inevitably will ensue. For healing to occur, what is needed is not for the other person to change or to apologize. They never did anything wrong to begin with. Rather, what is needed is to embrace the truth. The actual truth. Maybe a parent wasn’t mean or uncaring. Maybe this parent took an action to help protect a teenager from a bad situation. Maybe a boss wasn’t unfeeling. Maybe a boss was just trying to treat everyone equally. Maybe a neighbor wasn’t intending to run over one’s dog. Maybe the dog jumped out in front of the neighbor’s vehicle and there was no ill intent involved. In short, a lot of anger, pain, and bitterness can be cured as one comes to understand and embrace the actual truth about a given person or a given situation. One may even go from demanding the other person apologize, to realizing it is they who actually need to apologize to the other person for all the heartache and tension over all the years.)