The Bible Is Needed Today
Some admire the Bible’s triumphant emergence through the fires of criticism and the acid test of critical analysis, yet ask whether we need it today. Man’s unquenchable thirst and insatiable longing for fellowship with God and an authoritative guide to that desired goal evidences his need for the Bible. World situations are distressing. Chaos seems to threaten. Men speak freely, and fearfully of the “disintegration” of things of value. They seek something which will give light and offer hope. The Bible is the Book they need, for
“It sweetly cheers our drooping hearts,
In this dark vale of tears;
And life and light and joy imparts,
And banishes our fears.”
Now man’s omnipotence complex has failed him. He realizes how much he needs God. And the Bible is, as one has remarked, “Man’s highway to God, and God’s highway to man.” Whether his problem concerns guilt, pollution, suffering, fear, disappointment, or whatever else it may be, man can find help and hope in the Word of God. It not only leads man to God, but it becomes the channel through which God comes to him. And what a transformation it works in him, deepening his love for God and man, and fortifying him with an “unfaltering faith in an unfailing God.”
The bible Has Relevancy
By relevancy we mean that the Bible sustains close, logical relationship with, and importance to, the matters in hand. Its messages are very appropriate in today’s life. To those who seem hemmed in by a sense of hopeless despair and futility, the Bible’s message is that life has real meaning, the night will not last forever, and evil will not always triumph. God’s will may be postponed but cannot be thwarted forever. It shows how ordinary people with extraordinary devotion to a right cause, through right procedures may accomplish significant things for God.
Much is said about the needed “peace of mind.” The Bible is full of promises which give peace that the world cannot take away. There is a great clamor for security. The Bible declares that true security is not in the things one may possess, but in Christ and in moral and spiritual values. There is a cry for pardon from guilt and purging from pollution. The Bible tells of One who takes all guilt away and cleanses from all unrighteousness. Man faces the end of life and questions about the future. The Bible gives hope and assurance concerning the life after death-for those who put their trust in Him who conquered Death and is alive forevermore.
--Roy S. Nicholson
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