A young woman who loved her Bible, and knew it well, was the maid in a large house. A young man who used to come to the house laughed at her because of her religion, for he was an infidel. He would mockingly ask for her Bible, saying that he would open it anywhere and prove that it was not true.
At first she indignantly refused to allow him to touch it; but one day, after repeated assurances that he would treat it very carefully, he took it from her to "read aloud and refute the first verse his eye lighted upon.”
In silence he returned her Bible and went his way, never again to laugh at religion or to question the Bible. One verse was enough to convict him of his own folly.
“The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Heb. 4:1212For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).