More Precious — Part 1
“The Word of the Lord was precious in those days”
(1 Samuel 3:1).
Holy Scripture is precious because it, and it alone, contains CHRIST, and therefore the faith that saves. A diamond merchant, packing some precious gems which he was sending to a trader in India, wrapped each one separately with great care. Coming to the last and costliest of all, he used as its coverings the first three chapters of John’s gospel, tearing them, as he had done other gospel portions, from a waste volume in his office. This he often did as the soft paper made an ideal wrapping.
The Hindu buyer, to whom this precious stone was sent, received with it what was infinitely more precious to him than the diamond which it covered — a leaf from the precious Word of God, whereon he found these wonderful, life-giving words, so familiar to most of us: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
