Hebrews 4:2 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Most religions have their writings. Muslims have their Koran, Mormons have the Book of Mormon, Jews have the Torah and the list goes on and on. But we Christians have the Bible, a book unlike all others. It is inspired, consistent, sufficent, powerful and able to, as Paul says, pierce the division between soul and spirit. No other book has that power, no other book contains God revelation to His chosen people.
Think into the times of the Reformation. The men who gave their lives for the translation of the Scriptures, men who suffered persecution, excommunication, rejection, ridicule and mockery for the sake of the Scriptures, it is to these men whom we owe the Bibles which we now posess. God soverignly moved through His people to free his true Church from the bonds of elitist, Roman-Catholic Church. It took courage for these men to risk their life, their families, their friends and so much more, to give us the Scriptures that we have today. Let us not take advantage of the fact that Bibles our sold all around the world and in thousands of languages, and let us not be ungrateful for our God’s svoerignty and power to impress upon his people, a desire for His Word.
The question I ask myself, and you, is this. Would we have done the same in their position? Would we have risked our lives to translate the Scriptures? Would we have risked public disgrace to make the Bible available for all men? I hope so.
In Christ, By His Grace,
Scotty
