Truth For Youth
A Bible with a hole in it
Years ago in Philadelphia it was the custom of the chief of police to line up the drunkards before a large mirror and before locking them up in cells he will say, “Look at yourselves in the mirror!”
They saw themselves as they were filthy and bedraggled. Then the officer took a picture of each one. The following morning, when the drunkards had sobered up, he would show each one his picture as he had looked the night before. Some of them were whelmed with a sense of shame, disgrace and self-loathing.
God's word is a mirror. “For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself ……. and forgetteth what manner of man he was.” (James 1:23, 24)
The Bible is the only Book which accurately reflects the true condition of the unregenerated heart of man.
Years ago a missionary in Africa gave some pocket-size mirrors to the natives who had never seen their faces except as they were reflected in streams or lakes. A native princess was told that she was the most beautiful woman. Procuring a mirror, she went into her room to have a good look at her face. What the mirror revealed was her ugliness! She became so angry that she dashed the mirror to the floor and made a law that no mirrors were ever to be brought into her tribe.
During World War II, a small New Testament in his shirt pocket saved the life of Felix Rosser, a businessman. He was shot in the chest while trailing a company of tanks. The rapid gun firing hit Rosser, penetrated the New Testament and lodged between his ribs: The thickness of the Book slowed the speed of the bullet, preventing it from reaching Rosser's heart. It was removed by minor surgery. The New Testament, a gift from a friend to him when he left the States to go overseas, was an inexpensive but popular gift to a combat serviceman during World War II. Over its paper cover was a thick gold plated steel cover engraved: “May this keep you safe from harm.” The Bible with a hole in it, has been on display in seminaries throughout the United States.
Do you have a habit of reading and meditating the Word of God. If so, you are the most blessed one on this planet.