"This is my comfort in my affliction, that Your Word has preserved me alive." (Psalm 119:50, NASB)
This is my testimony. I do not read the Bible because we are supposed to. I read the Bible because I have to. The, "Word has preserved me alive." Let me share a quote from Martin Luther.
"I should gladly have seen all my books forgotten and destroyed, if only for the reason that I am afraid of the example I may give. For I see what benefit it has to the church that men have begun to collect many books and great libraries outside and alongside of the Holy Scriptures, and especially have begun to scramble together without any distinction, all sorts of 'fathers,' 'councils,' and 'doctors.' Not only has good time been wasted and the study of the Scriptures neglected, but the pure understanding of God's word is lost....It was our intention and our hope when we began to put the Bible into German that there would be less writing and more studying and reading of the Scriptures....I only ask in all kindness that the man who at this time wishes to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures....'"
Father, in Jesus' Name, I neglected Your Words to my own hurt. Thank You that you brought me "home" so long ago. Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
