THE BIBLE: God's Precious Gift to Us

One important truth that emerges over and over again in our study of this great book we call "The Holy Bible" is the fact that this message from heaven is indestructible. God has reassured us that His Word "liveth and abideth for ever" (1 Pet. 1:22-24).

Through the years critics have attacked the Bible with unrelenting fervor. The critics have faded into history, their works scarcely read and seldom remembered, but the Word of God marches on. This book is still the best seller. Because of its beauty and influence upon the lives of men, many a tribute has been paid to this sacred volume: and rightly so.

Born in the East, the Bible walks the ways of all the world and enters land after land. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to the heart of man. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life. The wicked and proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a mother's voice. It has woven itself into our dearest dreams; so that love, sympathy, devotion, memory, and hope put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech. No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own. When the landscape darkens, and the trembling pilgrim comes to the valley of the shadow of death, he is not afraid to enter; he takes the rod and staff of Scripture in his hand; he says to family and friends, 'Goodbye; we shall meet again'; and, confronted by that support, he goes toward the lonely pass as one who walks through darkness to light.

How grateful we should be for the precious word of God. We should read and study it as a hungry man longs for food, or a thirsty man for water to sooth his dry, parched lips. God's word is the manna for our soul and the light for our path. Do not neglect it, for it will judge you in the last day (John 12:48).

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