Knowing God – February 13, 2025
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“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105, NKJV)
When the Bible was first being printed in English there were a number of mistakes and variations of wording. One particularly famous mistake is described by Dr. F.F. Bruce in his great book History of the The Bible in English. Dr. Bruce relates: “But of all the misprints that the Authorized Version (King James Version) has suffered from, none has been so scandalous as the omission of the word “not” from the Seventh Commandment in an edition of 1631, for which the King’s printers were fined 300 pounds by Archbishop Laud. The offending edition was commonly known as the ‘Wicked Bible.’” Undoubtedly it must have been a best seller in its brief day reading “Thou shalt commit adultery” rather than “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Simply stated, the Bible is the most influential Book ever written and this surely is due to its Divine inspiration. The Book is God’s Word, His mind, purpose, ways and plans. No one can afford to be ignorant of this Book. And yet, Bible reading has largely gone the way of the cassette tape. People as a whole don’t make the time to read it. The authors of Simple Brevity (2022) state emphatically that people don’t read anymore, they scan. We wait for the next tweet, text or email. Reading, really concentrating on a text, has gone the way of the CB radio. We are told we have less time, more distractions, too many options and reading the mind of God is not considered all that important. And how we are the poorer for it. A famous performer related how he was travelling across the country when he looked into the sky and saw a cloud formation that looked like Karl Marx, the founder of modern Communism. He subsequently took up reading Marx’s works. Such is man without the indispensable guidance of the Bible. Since God’s Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path the implication is that we are moving through life on a difficult road. Walking anywhere, especially on a unfamiliar path in the dark is foolish and will inevitably result in a fall, a fall completely unnecessary.