It takes TOTAL submission in Christianity to slice precisely with the power of the word. Hebrews elaborates that the word is sharper than any two edged sword but it takes precise principles to cut with the word as with the physical sword. These principles are the edges of the sword and to cut with them you have to not just cram them but be able to use them in such precision that they cut through every slice of your life to your intended pattern. When the Lord said this title to me, "You are to write a book titled "edges of the sword" I indeed was taken by surprise, it rang no bell or had any substance to me, it sounded pure "Greek". I negotiated it secretly within as "the sword" and even started on the layout of "the sword" and could have found my way through the word but the lord revisited when I was working on the layout and reminded me "I said "edges of the sword." I sat down thinking I had a few unsubstantial ideas and I knew they did not hold water, until the Lord said get a piece of paper to scribe them down. I wrote the headings and immediately I knew these are that makes the edges of the sword sharp, these are the basic Christian principles. Our God is the God of order and has no confusion in Him. The word is surely alive but for it to cut through your plans, dreams and ambitions it has to be sharpened by your commitment to the covenanting and principles of God.