The Bible is True and Our Hope Is Found in God’s Word

Psalm 119:89 (NIV)
89 Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.

As we survey the world scene with Bible in hand, we know we do not worship an absentee God. He is standing in the shadows of history, still working to bring His plans to completion.

Therefore, we are not disturbed by the pictures of chaos, violence, bloodshed and war that fill our television screens and flood our newspapers. We know these are the consequences of humanity’s evil and sin, caused by our rebellion against God. Every headline, every news report confirms what the prophet Jeremiah said centuries ago: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

But never forget: GOD will speak history’s final word. Every day the world moves closer to the time when Christ will return, Satan will be defeated, and God’s perfect plan will be fulfilled.

No matter how uncertain and strained the future seems, the Christian knows the end of the story – and it is glorious! Don’t lose heart. The best is yet to be!

Isaiah 40:8 (NIV)
8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

A missionary in China who was imprisoned World War II, managed to take a forbidden Gospel of John with her into prison. She carefully hid it, and each night when she went to bed, she pulled the covers over her head and memorized one verse. She did this until the day she was freed.
When the prisoners were released, most of them shuffled out, but the missionary was so chipper
someone said she must have been brainwashed. A ¬Life magazine reporter who had interviewed her said, “She’s been brainwashed for sure, God washed her brain,
I’d encourage you not onto read God’s Word but to memorize it. You may find it alittle difficult at first, but as you repeat a verse or a group of verses over and over to yourself, you will find they begin to take root in your soul. The Psalmist declared, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” (Ps. 119:11) Then when adversity or trouble arises, those verses will come back and give you hope. Is God’s Word stored up in your heart and mind for the future?