MANY years ago a Japanese nobleman as he was boating in a lake, found a book floating in the water. He succeeded in getting it out, and after taking it home and drying it carefully, found it to be a Bible.
Though it was quite new to him, he took much interest in it, and began to read it. From the pages of the Scriptures he learned of the true God, and His love in giving His Son to be a Saviour. In simple faith he accepted that Saviour as his own.
In so doing he ceased to be an idolater, and became a son and worshiper of the living and true God. A new joy and interest filled his heart, and as long as he lived, he thanked God for the precious Book that had shown him the way of life.
What a treasure is the Word of God! This poor dark soul was brought to a saving knowledge of Him by reading it, and we too are equally dependent upon it for light and instruction.
Without the Bible we could not know God in a way that would profit us as sinners. We would not know of a Saviour who died that we might live, and that by believing on Him we might be saved from our sins, and made fit to go to dwell with Him above, when we leave this world.
How greatly privileged we are, then, to have a Book of which God is the author, containing such valuable information as to the way of salvation, and that which testifies of Christ who is the Saviour.
Since the testimony of the Scriptures are so clear in setting forth Christ as a Saviour, have I by faith made Him my own? Do I believe on Jesus to the salvation of my own soul?
Our friend, the Japanese, who read the Scripture for the first time, received its precious promises as if he were the only one to whom it was addressed. That is faith.
Messages of God’s Love 8/10/1930