THURSDAY
JANUARY 9
“The words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life.” Jn 6:63
THE
BIBLE IS—GOD SPEAKING TO YOU (1)
Did you
know that the longest telegraphic message ever dispatched was in May,
1881? It carried 188,000 words. It was
printed in full that day in the Chicago
Times. One of the nation’s leading newspapers gave space for four Gospels,
the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistle to the Romans. “A triumph of
publicity” was the verdict of the nation’s press. All this was done because the
Revised version of the New Testament in English was on sale that day. In New
Your City, thirty-three thousand copies were sold within twenty-four hours,
setting a new sales record for any book. Why does the Bible remain the World’s
most widely read book? For one simple reason: you read every other book—the Bible
reads you! You say, “But I don’t get a lot out of the Bible when I read it.”
You are not alone; many people say the same thing. But it doesn’t have to be
that way. F.B. Meyer, one of history’s great Bible teachers, writes, “Read the
Bible not as a Newspaper, but as a love letter. If a cluster od heavenly fruit
hangs within your reach, gather it. If a promise lies upon the page as a blank
check, cash it. If a prayer is recorded, launch it as a feathered arrow from
the bow of your desire.” Why do we keep going back to the Bible? Because in a
world where trust is in short supply, “Not one word has failed of all the good
promises he gave” (1 Ki 8:56 NIV).
Taken from The Word for You Today
Devotional
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