People take the Bible for granted every day. I have to say that sadly I am one of those people.
What I mean is that we have the Bible available to us and a lot of us have 5-10 Bibles in our homes and all in different versions! People in foreign countries don't have that luxury (I'm mainly talking about the poor foreign countries). They might have a Bible or they have some of It but not all of it. If our Bible was to start losing pages we would either retire that Bible and only use it when we really needed to read a passage from our favorite Bible. But most of us would go grab another Bible from our home library or go to a Christian book store and try and decide if we want the same version we had or a different one, a study Bible or a Bible with room on the margin so we can write little notes in it. They don't have all of the different versions that we are used to seeing.
What I mean is that we have the Bible available to us and a lot of us have 5-10 Bibles in our homes and all in different versions! People in foreign countries don't have that luxury (I'm mainly talking about the poor foreign countries). They might have a Bible or they have some of It but not all of it. If our Bible was to start losing pages we would either retire that Bible and only use it when we really needed to read a passage from our favorite Bible. But most of us would go grab another Bible from our home library or go to a Christian book store and try and decide if we want the same version we had or a different one, a study Bible or a Bible with room on the margin so we can write little notes in it. They don't have all of the different versions that we are used to seeing.
Also in a lot of foreign countries Bibles are illegal to have in your possession. So here's another thing that we don't have worry about. We don't have to hide our Bibles under the floor boards or in the wall. We don't have to be afraid of the police finding out that we own a Bible and them coming to arrest us.
I have been convicted lately of not using my Bible to the best of my abilities and pushing it aside at times when there is something more "important" that I want to do and reading my Bible would just take up too much time. It blows my mind that I do that and the people that are in those foreign countries want desperately to be able to read the Bible whenever and wherever they want! What's better than learning about Christ and things that will help us in our daily lives?? NOTHING!
I have been convicted lately of not using my Bible to the best of my abilities and pushing it aside at times when there is something more "important" that I want to do and reading my Bible would just take up too much time. It blows my mind that I do that and the people that are in those foreign countries want desperately to be able to read the Bible whenever and wherever they want! What's better than learning about Christ and things that will help us in our daily lives?? NOTHING!
