KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Invulnerable
SUPPOSE THAT THERE was a man who had lived upon this earth for 1800 years...
And suppose that during this 1800 years that this man had often been thrown into the sea and yet could not be drowned; that he had frequently been thrown to the wild beasts who were unable to devour him; that he had many times been forced to drink deadly poisons that never did him any harm; that he had often been bound in chains and locked in prisons and dungeons, yet he had always been able to throw off the chains and escape from his captivity; that he had repeatedly been hanged till his enemies thought him dead, yet when his body was cut down he sprang to his feet and walked away as though nothing had happened; that hundreds of times he had been burned at the stake, till there seemed to be nothing left of him, yet as soon as the fires were out he leaped up from the ashes as well and as vigorous as ever! We would call such a man indestructible! Such a man would be super-human!
THOUGHT: This is practically the way in which the Bible has been treated. It has been burned, drowned, chained, put in prison, and torn to pieces, YET NEVER DESTROYED! Bernard Ramm wrote: "A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. (B. J. Clarke)
KneEmail: "Because 'All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the LORD endures forever'" (1 Pet. 1:24-25).