Is the Bible Like the Moon?

     It could be that dusty, heavy, old book left behind by your dead great-grandmother, who fingered through it once a week on Sundays. Maybe you envision a thick, leather-bound version being pounded by a religious fist or carried to church under the arm of a preacher. Perhaps that book is an embarrassment, a dark secret that we don't want to talk about. You may have been convinced that it's full of fables, wives' tales and mistranslated bunkum. Besides, it's too difficult to understand and it contradicts itself.
     Have you ever wondered why, of all the books in the world, the Bible has been surrounded in such forbidding threats and accusations? It's just a book, isn't it?
    Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the moon. But, the moon continues to shine on us.  
    Like the moon, God's Word has survived. And it shines on.
    When all is said and done, each of our lives will be summed up by how we treated the Bible; whether we read it, or believed it, or obeyed it or whether we ignored it and chose to swallow the accusations against it.
     No, it's not just a book. It comes in the form of a book with words in it. That's true. But, you won't find any words in any other book that hold as much power. Therein lies the very reason behind the enemy's attacks on it. The enemy of your soul wants to convince you that it's just a weak fairy tale, full of mistranslations and contradictions because he knows that if you actually read it, just one word of Truth is able to pierce through the darkness and fill you with Light. 
     "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life." John 5:24
     God put his cookies on the lowest possible shelf for us. How could it be any easier than that? All you have to do is hear his word and believe it to pass from death to eternal life.
     Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." John 6:63
     Get those words into you and you will be full of life and light. The darkness will flee. Try it and see. 

(For those who are new to Bible-reading, I suggest you start with the book of John. Cut your teeth on that.)