Thoughts on the Way Home

Thursday, June 13, 2013

You and Your Bible


Let us read our Bibles in private more, and with more pains and diligence. Ignorance of Scripture is the root of all error, and makes a person helpless in the hand of the devil. There is less private Bible reading than there was fifty years ago. I never would have believed that so many men and women would have been tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, some falling into skepticism, some rushing into the wildest and narrowest fanaticism, and some going over to the Roman church. With many, there was a habit developed of lazy, superficial and careless reading of God's Word. 'You do err, not knowing the Scriptures" (Matt. 22:29). The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

- J. C. Ryle
 
HT: Mack T