Cesar Malan, when traveling on one occasion, met an infidel, with whom he entered into conversation, and in the course of his remarks, he quoted various passages of Holy Scripture. The infidel told him it was of no use his quoting from that book to him, inasmuch as he did not believe one word of it; that he should first establish its authenticity.
Malan replied, “Suppose I were to plunge a sword into your body, there would surely be no need of any logical proof that it was a sword it would prove itself by the effect upon your person.”
He then proceeded with the conversation, still quoting from the Word of God.
They parted; but the truth of the Word of God did its own work. It entered, as the sword of the Spirit, into the heart of the infidel, and cut its way through his infidel system, showing it to be a mass of folly, and himself to be a guilty hell-deserving sinner. Time rolled on, and after many years, Cesar Malan was accosted by a gentleman who asked him if he remembered having met him? He then told him that the Word of God had, in very deed, proved itself, in his case, to be the sword of the Spirit, and he now needed no logical proof.
Dear young Christian, do we not want to quote Scripture more after this fashion, with a deep and earnest faith in its divine power, with a full assurance that it is nothing less than the “sword of the Spirit?”
“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.” 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).