You may not read much, but during your life time, a few books you have read stand out in your mind. It may be a required reading book that you read during school. The title did not impress you, but as you read the book, it gripped you. Or, it may just be that casual reading book that peaked your interest to read more books by that author.
When you are asked about just one book that is above all the rest, you may just say the Holy Bible. It made such a change in your thinking, your speech, and the way you lead your life. In discussing the Holy Bible, an unknown author stated it this way: “Know it in your mind. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world.” When you put that into practice, it changes your daily activities on earth, and your eternal rewards in heaven.
Looking into the Holy Bible, there are a number of people that lived according to the above criteria. One such person is Apollos. He did not just study and have a casual understand of the Holy Bible, he studied to be firmly grounded in it. “Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures” (Acts 18:24). In the verses that follow, his credentials were very impressive: “being fervent in spirit” (v.25), “he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus” (v.25), and “he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ” (v. 28). Using the Scriptures, changes you and those that hear you in your use of the Scriptures.
The Holy Bible is definitely the Book of books. Knowing that your eternal rewards are based on your use of the Scriptures, and that the eternal destiny of those around depend on you telling them the Scriptures, that is all the more reason to “powerfully” know it. Put that into action today!
