God’s Word is indestructible. “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away” (Mt. 24:35). Every conceivable effort has been made to destroy the Bible. Copies have been burned in huge bonfires; edicts have been issued against circulating it and reading it; critics have tried to pick flaws on virtually every page of it. Yet with each passing year it circulates more widely. The number of languages in which one or more of its books has been published has now passed the 2,000 mark.
The Bible is invincible. “My word…shall not return unto Me void” (Isa. 55:11). Its message is for all of mankind without regard to race or region, class or culture. Multitudes will continue to resist it because they will not give up their sinful ways, but it will continue to work its miracles of grace in the lives of that growing host of people who accept it. The Bible has never disappointed anyone who trusted in it: “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth…” (Rom. 1:16).
His Book is also indispensable. “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (Jn. 6:63). The Bible alone opens the way to God. The emptiness and frustration of men who reject it is eloquent testimony to that fact. Even unbelievers prove the Bible to be true!
And it is inexhaustible. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!” (Rom. 11:33). Devout scholars who have given their lives to the study of the Bible find it still yielding nuggets of truth as rich as those they found when they began. The saints of all ages have read and reread the Bible with increasing profit to themselves and to those whom they influenced (see 1 Tim. 4:15-16).