Daily Morning Message 3/29/2021

Morning Message
March 29, 2021
by Gayle Gordon

My brother has been involved in our family's genealogy for years. It's an area of interest that has taken him on trips as far as Scotland and England, and he has met family members in the United States that we didn't know we had. It's exciting and, yet, troubling. History by humans can be a liar. For example, we were told a story of a great aunt who, with her two children, were lost in a prairie fire while moving in a conestoga wagon. We heard that tale from Mom, who heard it from her grandmother - the poor woman's sister. Turns out it never happened. A photo of the great aunt in her old age was presented; she never perished in her covered wagon and there was no prairie fire. The story had been made up. It was all a lie to cover up some unknown facts.

What about our Bible, thousands of years older? Is the Bible to be trusted? Is it, in it's modern state today, still the Word of God? And what about all the available translations? That question has always triggered an automatic response in me: is God capable of preserving and protecting His word through anything? Of course He is! He can protect every syllable against time. He can protect it against all the attacks of the enemy, from millions of pages of all other written material, conflicting ideologies, refined distractions and objections against it's content. Through everything that sinful man throws at it to destroy it's veracity, the Holy Bible still stands as the actual word of our Living God.

How can that be said? How do I know? For one reason; the Holy Spirit dwells in the pages and He blesses me when I read. I have a witness in my soul when I open that sacred Book, and I am taught the lessons of life itself in the words. Simply put, when I do what it says, things work out. When I ignore it's precepts, I get heavy and sad inside. It's more than a collection of words: it is guidance endorsed by the presence of the Holy Spirit of the Author.

"And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I [God] will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke." (Exodus 34:1)
Breaking the tablets did not damage the words on them.

"Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” (Exodus 34:27)
God backs up His written word when it is spoken - read out loud to yourself or others.

"To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." (Revelation 1:5-6)
And here are the Lord's principles for Kings:

“Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites.
...he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel." (Deuteronomy 17:18-20)

The Bible does not change and is not flawed. It will enhance and undergird our faith. It teaches, encourages, leads and guides our walk with the Lord. It is organic, living and individual - there are treasures within that were written then, for you in your world and culture today. God bless you as you read it!