You know as well as I that if some people had their way the Bible would be outlawed completely.  Then, you would not be able to go to the store and buy a Bible to give to someone as a wedding present.  How about when your son or daughter graduates from High School and you desire to give them something to remember your moral teaching.  A Bible would be just the thing, but that would be illegal.  How about when you or someone you love is sick and would like to draw closer to your God, but the Good Book has been exiled.
     How, then, would you think of the Sacred Pages?  Would you long to hold it in your hands?  Would you desire the smell of the leather cover?  Would you covet the sweet sayings from the pen of the man after God’s own heart?  Pause for a moment and……..think.  What kind of emptiness would there be.
     I remember a missionary telling a story of handing out Bibles in Russia.  There were lines of people to receive their copy of the Wonderful Words of Life, but there were only so many.  The missionary handed the last one he had to a lady, yet there were so many more people.  The next person in line was told there were no more.  Pause for a moment and………think.  What would you do….how would you feel, if you were that person?  The missionary said the man fell to his knees and began sobbing.
     How blessed are we?  In Paul’s discussion of the fact that the Jews are not now the only people who can be God’s children, he had to address one very important issue.  Many Jews may have said that it was, then, no use being a Jew.  Paul says, “What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God”  (Rom 3:1-2).
     How close is your Bible?  Pick it up.  Now, know, God’s grace is shining on you.