November 19

Build on the enduring Word

“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away” (Luke 21:33).
“But the word of the Lord endureth for ever” (1 Peter 1:25).

If you plant for a year, plant grain.
If you plant for ten years, plant trees.
If you plant for a hundred years, plant men.
If you plant for ETERNITY, PLANT THE WORD.

We can trust men too much, but we can never do so towards God. It is the surest thing that has been, or that can ever be. To believe His Word is to believe what none can fairly question. Has God said it? Then so it must be. Heaven and earth will pass away, but God’s Word will never pass away. The laws of nature may be suspended; fire may cease to burn, the water to drown, for this would involve no unfaithfulness to God. But for His Word to fail would involve a dishonoring variableness in the character and nature of the Godhead, and this can never be. Let us set to our seal that God is true, and never suffer a suspicion of His veracity to cross our minds.
—C. H. Spurgeon.


A strange, mysterious life pervades the Bible, which makes it not only an inexplicable mystery, but an indestructible Book. It is also life-giving. Its Living Waters make everything to live, wherever the river of God cometh. The living Spirit of God here speaks to the responsive spirit of man. And so down through the ages this Book continues to go, a mighty miracle worker, forever undying in itself, and carrying to the nations a message and a power which are both Divine.

—Dr. A. T. Pierson.

Oh, wonderful, wonderful Word of the Lord!
True wisdom its pages unfold;
And though we may read them a thousand times o’er,
They never, no never, grow old.
Each line hath a treasure, each promise a pearl,
That all if they will may secure;
And we know that when time and the world pass away,
God’s Word shall for ever endure.
—Julia Sterling.

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