JUL 5

Psalm 12:6-7
Memorise Proverbs 30:5-6
“Every word of God is pure”

Through the ages, the Bible has come under numerous assaults from all angles as agents of Satan have sought to cast doubt on God’s Word. Satan knows the power of the Word of God, of how its words are able to turn a soul from rebelling against God to become an obedient servant of Him.

In recent years, as we see the Lord’s return nearing, we also see more intensified attacks on God’s Word. Numerous so called ‘Bible scholars’ have questioned the Word of God, casting doubts on various points of it. Their theories would range from those who see the Bible as but a curious collection of myths and legends, to those who claim the Bible to be inspired, but yet contain many mistakes and still require some ‘editing’, claiming that words have been lost in the transmission process. The focus of many who would deny the 100% perfection of the Bible is actually on the Old Testament. They point to some apparent contradictions and discrepancies in the names, dates and numbers, in an attempt to prove that the Bible has mistakes! How sad that Christians themselves would attack God’s Word.

As we read the Bible, time and again we see the Old Testament attesting for itself. The prophets proclaim “thus saith the Lord”, giving us confidence to know that it is indeed the very words of God that we are reading, and not a haphazard collection of man’s writings. Our confidence comes from God Himself. He validates His own Word. He promises us that He will preserve His Word, pure, perfect and complete for us, and so we simply take Him at His Word. Psalm 12:6-7 is one such promise, where it is clearly proclaimed that the words of the Lord are pure as silver purified seven times – the number of perfection. In other words, it is 100% perfect, guarded and preserved by God. The promise is that the Lord will keep and preserve them not just in David’s time, but for every generation, such that we will always have the perfectly pure Word of God in our hands, available for us to read, learn and cherish.

If there are particular parts of the Bible that we do not understand or which seems contradictory to us, we must realize that the mistake is not in the Bible, but rather our own faulty understanding. We ought always to humble ourselves before God than to be quick to find fault and criticize it!

Thought: God’s Word today is perfect! No doubts about it at all.
Prayer: Lord, we praise You, for the perfection of Your Word.