Have you ever read the Bible? Really read it? Not just to learn a verse for Sunday school, but seriously, thoughtfully, read it?
The Bible is the “best-seller” of all time-more copies of it have been sold than any other book; it has been translated into more languages than any other, but it is said that 90 million Americans have never read it! (Are you one of them?)
Polls have shown that nine out of ten high school students claim to believe in God-but only one in ten reads the Bible. Believing in God, how can one not read His book? It is the only way to learn about Him-and the truth about humanity (including oneself), for the whole picture of human life is there and the entire scope of history past and future. It is the best and only true guide through this troubled world.
And 90 million Americans have not read it!
The Bible is the oldest book. The five books of Moses were written seven hundred years before Rome was built.
It is the truest book. Others may err; the Bible cannot, simply because its Author is the eternal God the God who cannot lie. All that He says is truth.
It is the best-loved book. Men and women have laid down their lives for it. The rack, the gallows, the stake-even the lions of imperial Rome-have each failed to make the Lord’s saved ones give up, deny or cease to love the Bible. Even today there are places in the world where the mere possession of a Bible can lead to prison-torture-death. Still its wonderful message of hope and deliverance goes on.
Who can stop a river? Men may change its course, men may dam it up, but it flows on. Who can stop the rain? Who can stop the snow? God has promised that His Word shall go forth as the rain and the snow-it shall be irresistible. “As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Isa. 55:10-1110For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:10‑11)).
Please...read the Bible!