Light and Truth - The Old Testament

<p><strong><em>God speaks to us through the Bible.</em></strong> That Book embodies His words. Creation itself is the visible embodiment of His power and wisdom. It is the result of His words. This Book of His is in a different way the effect of His speaking. It is His written wisdom and power. <em>There</em> is His voice to us. The thunder and tempest are His loud voice of grandeur. The sunshine and the gentle breeze are His still small voice. But deeper clearer keener softer and still more penetrating than all of these is His written Word to us.</p><p><strong>The Bible is what it is because it contains the <em>words</em> of God.</strong> It is through the Word and in connection with it that God communicates with us. The Word revives: <em>Your word has revived me</em> (Psalm 119:50). The word produces faith: <em>Faith comes from hearing</em> (Romans 10:17). The Word strengthens comforts heals nourishes and revives. It gets into contact with each part of our souls and works its own work there. And it does this because it is <em>divine.</em> No human words could be trusted to work the work in a human soul so unrestrictedly. It is not eloquence poetry nor argument but something more than all these together. It is something peculiar and indescribable which man could not have formed and which he cannot understand that makes it so suitable for the soul of a foolish and sinful man.</p>