When you stand at a railway crossing and watch a huge locomotive and the rest of the train rush by, how like a tremendous, swift, living monster it seems. Perhaps the stewardess in the picture is explaining to the little girls how steam is used to turn the huge driving wheels which move the engine.
It must be pleasant to go on a long trip, and have a stewardess to entertain little folks, and point out interesting things.
All of us are taking a journey through life, and we have a guide to explain things we need to know about the journey and about God, into whose presence we are going. Yes, it is the Word of God, and it is more than a guide: it might be coared to the locomotive for power, and the ability to accomplish its purpose.
“The Word of God is quick (living), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the diving asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:1212For 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).
Many changes have been made on locomotives since the first one, which ran at a speed of three miles an hour. But God’s Word is perfect, and is unchanging and unalterable.
ML 09/07/1941