Topic(s): Bible Influence, Bible Study

“May God bless the man who placed this book here. I am a young lady twenty-one years old, fatherless and motherless. Tonight this book saved me from taking a wrong step. May the next reader find in it the comfort that I did.”
These words were found on the fly-leaf of a Bible in a motel in Birmingham, Alabama. The Bible is the one book that can save many a heartache. There is no greater accomplishment in life than to be able to rightly divide the word of truth. It is worth all the necessary sacrifice. One can never be truly great who does not know the Word, love it, live it, delight in it, and teach it without perversion and without misrepresentation. The one who studies and knows how to handle it is in a position to render the greatest service to the world. No wonder Paul told Timothy (1) to study, (2) to be a workman, and (3) to seek to be approved to God (2 Timothy 2:15). There is no higher ambition on earth.
The one who seeks to know the Bible will endeavor to study its contents book by book, meet its characters as they unfold through its pages, study its types, its doctrine, its topics, paragraphs, sentences, and words. This is a lifetime work.

The Bible is a mirror that enables us to see ourselves. It is food which supplies the strength that we need, a lamp to guide our way, a hammer to break and to build, a sword to fight and to defend, the seed to plant and grow, and the goal to own and to become our reward.

                                                                          —Franklin Camp