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Monday March 16 2026
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1 Peter 1:22-25-Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 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, 25 BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
God’s Word has often been the brunt of many attacks. People often hate God, His Word, and His messengers. Yet despite the attacks leveled against the Bible, it has always stood the test and remains as it always has: unscathed and triumphant.
One servant of God has powerfully elaborated on this subject:
“From that time till these present days, the attack has been continued unceasingly. Down through the centuries, the gales of opposition and infidelity have lashed themselves into a fury against this same Word, only to be spent in the effort, leaving the structure of Holy Scriptures intact as ever, not one single stone having been loosened, let alone dislodged from the foundation to the highest pinnacle. The opposition of men to the Word of God is born of the fact that the Bible reveals man’s sin, discounts his wisdom, makes his greatest might to seem puny, and lays his pride in the dust. As one has put it, “The Bible is such a Book as man could not write if he would, and would not write if he could.” Towards this Book, he has shown the most intense hatred, revealing a determination to get rid of such a scathing indictment of his own depraved condition. To accomplish this, man after man has entered the lists against it. “Celsus tried with the brilliancy of his genius, and he failed. Then Porphyry tried it with the depth of his philosophy, and he failed. Lucien tried it with the keenness of his satire, and he failed. Then Diocletian came on the scene of action, and tried other weapons; he brought to bear against the Bible all the military and political power of the strongest empire the world ever knew, at the height of its glory. He issued edicts that every Bible should be burned, but that failed. Stronger edicts were issued, that those who owned Bibles should be put to death, and that failed. Every engine of destruction that human wisdom, human science, human philosophy, human wit, human satire, human force and human brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against the Bible, and the Bible still stands” (Torrey). Nor has this determined attack been confined to the earlier part of this era. In more recent times, the assault has lost nothing of its keenness. “In Hume, in Gibbon, in Voltaire, and La Place, not to mention a multitude of vulgar assailants, the Bible has had to sustain the assaults of the greatest talent, the sharpest wit, and the acutest intellects. To make it appear a cunningly-devised fable, philosophers have sought arguments amid the mysteries of science, and travelers amid the hoar remains of antiquity; for that purpose geologists have ransacked the bowels of the earth, and astronomers the stars of heaven; and yet after having sustained the most cunningly-devised devised and ably-executed assaults of eighteen hundred years, it still exists” (Guthrie). This perpetuity of the Scriptures speaks loudly of their origin. What man can produce, man can destroy. But this Book, being the Word of God, partakes of the character of God, and has for its age immortality. However powerful the opposition to it may be, it is born but to perish, while the Book which is the object of its hatred is destined to be age-abiding. All that pertains to man the ravages of time will destroy; but the Bible is the Book of eternity. When the handiworks of man, the things upon which his fondest hopes are centered, and which he deems to be most enduring, have passed into oblivion, this Book will still abide; for the words of the Lord Jesus Christ concerning His own teachings are true of the whole Book: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35). And as it has been, so shall it be. “The empire of the Caesars is gone; the legions of Rome are moldering in the dust; the avalanches that Napoleon hurled upon Europe have melted away; the pride of the Pharaohs is fallen; the pyramids they raised to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert sands; Tyre is a rock for bleaching fishermen’s nets; Sidon has scarcely left a wreck behind; but the Word of God still survives. All things that threatened to extinguish it have only aided it; and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that man can build, how enduring is the least word that God has spoken… (Cumming).” (Robert D. Johnston, Numbers in the Bible : God’s Unique Design in Biblical Numbers: God’s Design in Biblical Numerology, 29-54 (Kindle Edition): Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications)
Let’s be wise enough to build our lives on the unshakable foundation of God’s Word.
Father, thank You for Your Word. Give us a heart of wisdom to follow You as the Scriptures teach. Amen.