A CLOSED BOOK

The Bible has been the world’s “best seller” for many years even though the authors have been dead 2,000 years and longer. Few books can match it’s record.

But the dark and sad fact is that “Bible reading is at an all time low.”

The Bible is a permanent fixture in many homes, but a fixture seldom used. It occupies a place of importance on the desk, the living room table or the bookcase. But the Book of books in many instances is only a decoration or an ornament.

Tragic, but true, to the vast majority of Americans the Bible is a closed book. Pages of Scripture are as blank and without meaning to great numbers who profess to be followers of Christ as they are to non-Christian.

Some of you have seen the ink used for secret writing. It fades away the minute it is used and the paper seems to be blank. But if the sheet of paper is held over a fire, the writing comes out and can be read easily. For many people the pages of the Bible are blank and have no meaning. However, there is a Fire that can bring out the meaning on the pages of Scripture. This fire is the Holy Spirit. He can illumine our hearts and minds and bring meaning to the content of the Bible.

William Jones (The Presbyterian Journal)

If your soul is not being exercised toward more and more spiritual godliness; if you do not feel a drawing, a conforming to be like Christ, “examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith.”

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