The Boomerang Life
The Power of God's Word in Our Daily Life
Before we get started today - I’ve got some news for you!!
Read It or Press Play
Some days you may want to slow down, settle in, and read every word. Other days, you may want to press play and listen while you’re driving, folding laundry, getting ready, or pretending the pile of dishes is not staring at you.
Now you can do either.
Each Unfiltered Faith article on Monday’s will still be here for you to read, but you’ll also have the option to watch or listen as I share it with you. I’ll stay close to what I wrote, but because I apparently cannot read my own words without adding a thought, a story, or a little extra commentary, you may hear a few things that never quite made it onto the page.
So grab your coffee, choose what works for your day, and let’s dig into God’s Word together. (Video is at the end of the article)
The Boomerang Life
One particular morning while listening to one of my favorite podcasts, I heard a phrase that got my head spinning: the boomerang life.
I’m paraphrasing what was shared, but the thought was this:
When we live a life in Christ, it is much like living a boomerang life. The deeper we pour into our walk with God and pursue all He has for us through the power of His Word, the effects of that pursuit begin circling right back into our lives.
That is exactly what happens when we throw a boomerang.
What happens every single time? It comes back to you.
That is the beauty and power of the Word of God. It is alive. It is active. And it is always accomplishing far more than we can see in the moment.
So let’s go to the Word and watch the boomerang life displayed right before our eyes.
Isaiah 55:11 says:
“It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.”
That is a jaw-dropping truth.
God sends out His Word, and it always produces fruit.
This doesn’t mean occasionally, here and there. Or when conditions in our life are perfect and all put together.
It means His word WILL accomplish everything He desires, and it will prosper everywhere He sends it. No matter what our seasons look like.
Let that revelation get deep into your spirit!
This is the unstoppable movement of God’s Word. He sends it out, it goes to work, it produces fruit, and everything it touches begins to change.
Here are some of what God’s Word does in our life:
It enters barren places and begins sprouting new life.
It reaches challenging places and brings clarity.
It moves into fearful places and establishes peace.
It confronts lies, uproots strongholds, renews our minds, redirects our steps, and transforms the landscape of our lives.
And then comes the boomerang effect.
The Word that God sends out begins returning through the fruit it produces in us.
We begin thinking differently.
Speaking differently.
Responding differently.
Living differently.
God’s Word takes root within us, and then begins showing up through us. That is what it is all about!
And before we go on I have to stop and say this:
The boomerang life is not just reserved for the mountaintop seasons of our lives.
In fact, I think its effects often becomes even more evident in the testing seasons of our life—the places where worry creeps in, circumstances feel uncertain, trusting isn’t easy, and we need more than a quick inspirational scripture to hold us steady.
This is why staying continually (as it says in Colossians 2:6-7) rooted in the Word of God matters so deeply.
The Word we have been reading, praying, declaring, and hiding within our hearts is what starts circling back into our life like daily bread that brings the reminders we need to keep us moving one step forward. Even when it feels impossible.
David lived this again and again.
His life was not one long mountaintop experience. He knew rejection, betrayal, loss, warfare, waiting, and the loneliness of hiding in caves. Yet David continually brought himself back to what he knew about God. He reminded his own soul of God’s goodness. He spoke of God as his refuge, his strength, his deliverer, and his faithful help.
The truth David had poured into his heart in the quiet places came circling back in the hardest ones.
That is the boomerang life.
When the difficult season arrives, we are not left scrambling to manufacture faith from nothing. Come on now!!! The Word of God rises within us and speaks again and again and again. It reminds us who God is, what He has done, and why we can trust Him right here.
So, let’s keep digging in and head to Isaiah verse 12 to see the wonders of God displayed even greater.
It says:
“You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands!”
Do you see it?
God’s Word goes out, and what comes back? Joy and peace comes back!
The whole landscape changes. Our drought season becomes our flourishing season! What was once silent begins singing. What appeared lifeless begins responding. Even the mountains, hills, and trees become part of the celebration.
That is what the Word of God does. It does not just give us something inspiring to read in the morning or when we go to bed at night. It enters our lives with the power to change the atmosphere around us and the condition within us.
And I have to keep reading because verse 13 gives us an even clearer picture:
“Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow; where nettles grew, myrtles will sprout up. These events will bring great honor to the Lord’s name; they will be an everlasting sign of his power and love.”
Where there were once thorns, something new begins to grow.
Where pain, resistance, disappointment, grief, and barrenness once occupied the ground, evidence of God’s transforming power begins to appear.
The thorn does not get the final word.
The barren place does not get to remain barren.
The painful season does not get to define the entire landscape of our lives.
God sends His Word into those places, and His Word begins doing what only His Word can do. And eventually, what God planted begins rising from the very ground that once looked hopeless.
That is the boomerang life in Christ.
We receive His Word, press into His presence, obey what He speaks, and allow His truth to take root within us. Then the fruit of that pursuit begins circling back into every part of our lives.
His Word produces joy.
His Word produces peace.
His Word produces freedom.
His Word produces endurance.
His Word produces transformation.
His Word produces evidence that the thorny places did not have the power to stop what God intended to grow.
But here is what I love most about the ending of this passage: the fruit is not ultimately meant to point back to us.
“These events will bring great honor to the Lord’s name.”
The beauty of the boomerang life is not simply that we receive something wonderful from God. The beauty is that everything His Word produces within us becomes an everlasting sign of His power and His love.
Our peace points to Him → Our joy points to Him → Our freedom points to Him.
The transformed places in our lives become living evidence that God is faithful, His Word is powerful, and His love is still rewriting landscapes.
God’s Word never travels empty. It never loses its power along the way. It never returns having failed its assignment.
And that is just one small section of Scripture.
Honestly, I could write for days about the boomerang life.
Because once you begin looking for it, you will the goodness of God coming back to you in every way. Over and over again.
So, go and live out this life in Christ knowing that He is faithful to complete what He started in your life.
One boomerang at a time.
~Tracee
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