The Divine Power of the Bible

The Bible possesses divine power to produce joy. Joy that is pure, deep, real, abiding, and eternal comes from God. He gives it, maintains it, and increases it through the Bible.

There is no gladness comparable to that which comes through meditating upon, and acceptance of, the words recorded in the Bible. The saddest man I ever met became one of the happiest men I ever knew through being introduced by me to the Bible and its contents.

A year or so ago, I met a physician who was leading an aimless, joyless life. He was encouraged to become a student of the Bible. I now meet him almost every day when home. His face is always radiant, and when he speaks to me, it is always some story of the joy with which God has filled his heart through study of the Bible.

Is there any other book or books which I could have set him to studying with the same results? Jeremiah’s experience is being repeated by thousands daily: “Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart.” Jer. 15:16. There is, in the Bible, a power to produce such a joy as only God can give, a joy entirely different from any human or earthly source. The power of God is in the book.

The Bible possesses divine power in still other directions. It begets patience in those who are being tried, it comforts those who are in any sorrow, it awakens hope that never falters, and it safeguards against all the errors of false teachers and the wiles of the devil. But enough has been said.

If there is anything capable of scientific demonstration by actual experiment, it is that the power of God is in the Bible in a way that it is in no other book. The only way anyone can question it is by ignoring facts of daily occurrence that are open to the observation of anybody.

The Bible is of divine origin, it possesses divine authority, and it displays divine power. Happy, then, is the man who ponders daily its wonderful words, who believes all that it teaches, who puts into practice its heaven-born precepts, and who cherishes the hopes which God, who cannot lie, has promised in it. There can be no mistake more inexcusable and fatal than to doubt, disobey, or neglect the reading of the Bible.