Again, with words...

Again, I have found something in social media that I’d like to share. It’s attributed to Carl Sagan, but I cannot find the appropriate citation. Regardless, I truly appreciate the sentiment.

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time…”

This is especially true of the Scriptures. Written ages ago by those no longer with us, they are the product of the God Who loves and cares for us. They bind us to Him by faith in the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus, and through Him to one another and all the faithful of all time. Is it truly any wonder that the apostle John refers to Christ Jesus as “the Word”?

2 Timothy 3: 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.