I never heard of a kitten who could play the piano, did you? But perhaps you have heard of John Bach who lived years ago, and who loved to play the piano even when he was very small.
John Bach had an older brother who was jealous of the little boy, and never wanted to lend him any music books. But John was determined to play, so he crept downstairs the night, borrowed his brother’s music book, and spent long hours after midnight copying the pages by the light of the moon.
You can imagine his brother’s surprise and anger when he found the new copy in John’s room. He tore it to pieces. Hours of night copying all torn to bits, but John was not very sorry. He just went down to the big piano and played every note of it from memory. The book was gone, but his memory held good. Music was so interesting to him, for his heart was in it.
The Devil has been trying for thousands of years to destroy the Word of God and throw it away like John’s brother with the music. But some of God’s people have copied it by hand, and loved it, and memorized it, and God has not let Satan destroy it. Now, Satan knows that he can’t destroy that Book, so he is trying to make people put it on the shelf and leave it there without reading it.
My dear reader, what are you doing with your Bible? Do you read it sometimes, or not at all? Or do you memorize it until it is part of you, you believe it, and love it, and live it?
If you don’t read and believe it now, Satan may one day succeed in taking that Book from you, and what else have you for eternity? If you believe it now, then angry men may tear or destroy or despise your Bible, but they can never take away the living Word—the Lord Jesus—from you. He said,
ML 06/25/1950