WHY MEN TREASURE THE BIBLE
Illustration★★★★Why is it that men treasure the Bible? The ready answer may be that it is the Word of God and must, therefore, be eternal and commanding.
But so easy an explanation does not satisfy. The Word of God is an eternal word because it gives an answer to questions that are eternally rising in the minds and souls of men. As time moves on, we are confronted ever and anon with the most pressing and poignant human problems. Man must be forever trying his spirit against the spirit of the world.
Calamity smites him; confusion overtakes him; fortune smiles and then suddenly frowns upon him. Out of all this welter of conflicting emotions he cries for a sure word of direction, a solace to his wounded spirit, a light amid his surrounding darkness. These he must have or perish. With grateful heart he finds them unerringly in the Bible.
It speaks his language; it “finds” him where he is, and points him to the place to which he wishes to go. It thus is born anew as the vivid and satisfying answer to the need of every generation. As long as men desire Reality and seek for God, they will turn wistfully the pages of this immortal epic of the soul.
The point
A profound essay on why the Bible endures: it speaks to eternal human questions about suffering, calamity, and meaning, offering sure direction and solace where other voices fail.