Bible Survival

Well, if you get up early in the mornings, and have any perception of what’s going on around you just as the sun is lightening the sky, you’ll discover where all that bird-do on your car is coming from. Yes, it’s bird migration time again and if you have a tree in your yard it’s probably full of roosting noisy traveling birds spending the night at your house. Early mornings and evenings, downtown Floresville sounds like a political convention arena or at best the trading floor at Wall Street when somebody is trying to jack up the price of gasoline again. One good thing is that the birds will move on in quick and orderly fashion just as they have done for thousands of years. But, be forewarned, they’ll be back in the spring, heading north for he summer like some of us wish we could do knowing those 100 degree temperatures are sure to following the birds. Yeh, we’ve got a good six months before we have to think about that again, right?
A traveler one night found himself obliged to remain in a small town because of a washout on the railroad caused by heavy rains. He entered a café and said to the waitress, “Looks like the flood out there, doesn’t it?” “The what?” she asked. “The flood”, he replied. Surely you’ve read about Noah and the flood and the ark.” Sternly she said, “Mister, with all this rain, I haven’t seen a newspaper in over three days!”
A young man came to a congregation to try out for the open preacher’s position. He preached a dynamic lesson before the eldership. As soon as it was over the elders talked among themselves, then one of them asked the young man, “Son, where did you get that sermon?” “Out of the Bible”, he replied. “Oh, that’s for sure”, the elder injected “for most of that lesson certainly isn’t in the Bible!”
Francois- Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778) author and philosopher, pen name Voltaire, once stated, “The Bible will be a short lived book.” The years proved Voltaire wrong and the very house in which he lived became a depository for newly printed Bibles awaiting shipping. The Communist dictionary issued by the Soviet State Publishing House describes the Bible as a “collection fantastic legends without scientific support.” Lenin once declared, “I expect to live long enough to attend the funeral of all religion.” Lenin has long since been dead, the Bible and religion has never been more alive. Author and philosopher Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809) stated, “Within fifty years the Bible will be a forgotten book.” But, years later, the very press he used to print this statement was being used to print Bibles. No other book has survived the centuries unaltered, as has the Bible. It has been hated and hounded as no other book down through the ages. It has successfully withstood the attacks of atheism, skepticism, rationalism, pantheism, modernism and its many other enemies.
[Matthew 24:35] Yes, the Bible has had many enemies and will undoubtedly face many more between now and the return of Jesus. The Bible will survive! The message of salvation will never be lost between its covers. It is guarded by the Spirit of God to remain accurate and true to the will of God. Jesus said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” God has said it and that’s it. God will not change his mind and alter his own word. To change in any way would warrant a “do over” on God’s part. I guess you know it ain’t gonna happen. Believe His Word and live.