Have you ever packed something only to find that you left something
out? I am forever leaving something behind that I meant to take with
me. It even spreads to my writing of these devotions. In this case,
certain letters or spaces may be missing making different words than
that which was intended. There is only one Book that has everything in
it that was meant to be in it and that is God's Holy Word, the Bible.
Do you have all of God's Word? There was a pastor I knew, as he has
since passed away, who when he got saved, decided to read his Bible
completely through. He chose the Bible that he owned and began
reading. In a short time, he discovered that the printer had left out
about 120 pages of the text. Even a Bible publisher can make mistakes.
Exodus 8:1 says, "And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh,
and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may
serve me."
We can be assured that we can have a copy of all that
God has said and He has said a lot. The above verse of Scripture has
the phrase, "...Thus saith the LORD." That phrase occurs some 413 times
in the Old Testament. Now, I didn't count them but my computer did and
while the computer is not infallible, it is perhaps more accurate than I
am especially in the area of counting how many times a word or phrase
is used in the Bible. Of all the books and all the material that has
been written in the world, the Bible still stands as the most accurate.
The Word of God is the most accurate of all writings and is 100% true.
As my pastor friend found out, however, when it comes to a physical
publishing house of the Scriptures, something might be left out. Have
you checked to see if your Bible has all of the pages numbered in
consecutive order? When you open your Bible, do some of the pages still
stick together, especially in the minor prophets or the book of Second
Chronicles? Every now and then, people will inform me of a mistake in
my devotion page where I hit the "9" key instead of the "0" key or where
words don't make sense. Some of you have become good in discerning
what I meant to say rather than what I said. You don't have to worry
abut what God said or try to interpret what he meant to say. He said
what He meant to say. That doesn't meant that we understand it all
today, but someday we will be able to understand it. God is infallible
but your publisher is not infallible. Holman, Cambridge, Nelson and
Oxford can all make mistakes but God never makes mistakes. So, praise
God today that He has given us a copy of His Word and that it is a guide
for us to use in our daily life and even gives us the road map to
heaven. Praise God today!
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