Live by the Bible

“Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain” (Phil. 2:16).

We have our responsibility for God’s Holy Word. If this is the inspired Word of God, how solemn and supreme its claims! Let us believe it implicitly; let us believe it without compromise or questioning. Let us not try to eliminate the supernatural and bring it down to the plane of our own reason and knowledge, but let us bow submissively before the throne of Him Who speaks from Heaven, and say with every fiber of our being, “It means just what it says.”


But let us also obey. Believe means to “live by.” Our faith has two sides: one is faith, the other is faithfulness. One is trust, the other is trustworthiness. They are the two wings that bear us above the dark abyss; they are the two oars that carry us through the dangerous rapids; they are the two hands that grasp and hold fast forever the eternal covenant. Obedience is always the condition of faith. Only as we live by this blessed Book can we fully claim its promises and rest upon its words of grace. Let us live up to the fullness of our Bible. Let us translate every word of it into our lives. Let each of us be a new edition and a new version of the Scriptures, translated into flesh and blood, words and acts, holiness and service.
—A. B. Simpson.
A Chinese Mandarin was once asked if he had read the Bible. He brought out a book into which he had copied Bible verses which he admired, and then laying his hand on the book said, “If only the people who profess this religion were to live in accordance with its precepts, this religion would spread all over the world.”

You can stick up the placards all over the wall,
But here is the word I announce:
It is not the motto that hangs on the wall,
But the motto you live that counts.

“Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ” (2 Cor. 3:3).

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