Everybody ought to Love the Bible. Everybody ought to Read the Bible. Everybody. It is God’s Word. It holds the Solution of Life. It tells about the Best Friend mankind ever had, the Noblest, Kindest, Truest Man that ever trod this earth.
It is the Most Beautiful Story ever told. It gives a Meaning, and a Glow, and a Joy, and a Victory, and a Destiny, and a Glory, to life elsewhere unknown.
There is nothing in history, or in literature, that in any wise compares with the simple annals of the Man of Galilee, who spent his days and nights ministering to the Suffering, teaching Human Kindness, Dying for Human Sin, Rising to Life that Shall Never End, and promising Eternal Security and Eternal Happiness to all who will Come to Him.
Most people, in their serious moods, must have some wonderment in their minds as to how things are going to stack up when the End comes. Laugh it off, toss it aside, as we may, THAT DAY WILL COME. And THEN WHAT? Well, it is the Bible that has the answer. And an unmistakable answer it is. There is a God. There is a Heaven. There is a Hell. There is a Saviour. There Will be a Day of Judgment. Happy the man, who, in the days of his flesh, makes his peace with the Christ of the Bible, and gets himself ready for the Final Take-Off.
How can any thoughtful person keep his heart from warming up to Christ, and to the Book that tells about Him? Everybody ought to love the Bible. Everybody. EVERYBODY.
Yet Widespread Neglect of the Bible by churches and by church people is just simply appalling. Oh, we talk about the Bible, and defend the Bible, and praise the Bible, and exalt the Bible. Yes indeed! But many church members Seldom Ever Even Look Into a Bible, – indeed would be Ashamed to be seen Reading the Bible. And Church Leadership generally seems to be making no serious effort to get people to be Bible Readers.
Present-day Protestantism seems to Care So Little for the Book it So Loudly Professes. And Roman Catholicism avowedly prefers its own decrees above the Bible.
We are intelligent about everything else in the world. Why not be intelligent about our religion? We read newspapers, magazines, novels, and all kinds of books, and listen to the radio by the hour. Yet most of us do not even know the names of the Bible books. Shame on us! Shame on us! Worse still, the Pulpit, which could easily remedy the situation, seems, with rare exceptions, Not to Care.
Individual Direct Contact with God’s Word is the principal means of Christian Growth. All leaders of Spiritual Power in Christian History have been devoted Readers of the Bible.
The Bible is the Book we Live by. Bible Reading is the means by which we Learn, and Keep Fresh in our Minds, he IDEAS that mold our Lives. Our Lives are the product of our Thoughts. To Live Right, we need to Think right.
Thoughts have Power over our Lives by being OFTEN in our minds. We read the Bible Frequently and Regularly, so that God’s Thoughts may be Frequently and Regularly in our Minds; that His Thoughts may become Our Thoughts; that Our Ideas may become Conformed to God’s Ideas; so that we may be Transformed into God’s Own Image, and be Made Fit for Eternal Companionship with our Creator.
(this article is found in Halley's Bible Handbook and typed out by Zhuomin's friend Maverick. The bold and capitalise are according to what is in the book.)