WHAT a comfort it is that the Word of God is still quick and powerful—still able to make wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Although frequently rejected by men, yet it is settled in heaven, and settled forever. Heaven and earth will pass away, but not His word; and it is still true that God has magnified His WORD above all His name.
Some years ago I was sitting in one of the parks in London. On the other side of the path, exactly opposite, was a sign-post inscribed with the words “To the Zoological Gardens.” A man came and sat on the seat beside me, looking so sad and unhappy that I longed to speak to him about God. But while hesitating as to doing so, two persons came along, chatting pleasantly together.
Not perceiving the board of direction as they passed it, they paused in front of the man, and asked him the way to the Gardens.
He took his pipe from his mouth, gave them the required information, and then, having watched their receding figures till they were beyond hearing, turned to me and said, pointing to the sign-post facing us: “There are plain written directions which way people should go; they pass by them and come to me to know their way.”
“Yes,” I said; “but do we not act in the same way with regard to the Word of God? There are plain written directions there, and yet we disregard them and go astray.”
“That is another matter,” he replied. “My father,” he continued, “was a Roman Catholic. I let my children go to the Sunday school, but I care for none of these things.”
Then he went on to express many sad thoughts which I will not repeat; but at the end of a long conversation I said to him, “There is joy and peace in believing; but your disbelief of God’s Word has not given you peace or rest.”
“No, it has not,” he replied.
Whether that poor man has yet bowed to the Word of God I cannot say, for I never saw him again.
But how are we treating the plain written directions of God’s Word? Through the grace of God this land still has a plentiful supply of Bibles, and the Spirit of God is here to apply that Word of God to the conscience.
But the days are coming, when there will be a famine, not of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it (Amos 8:11, 1211Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: 12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. (Amos 8:11‑12)).
Are we heeding His Word? God in these last days has spoken to us by His Son. How shall we escape if we disregard His Word and neglect this great salvation which has been brought to us at such cost to Himself?
E. U.