p. 9 | THE BIBLE FROM GOD by Charles Spurgeon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Jan 9, 1907

THE BIBLE FROM GOD.

By Charles Spurgeon

THE Bible is the writing of the living God. Each word in it dropped from the everlasting lips; each sentence was dictated by the Holy Spirit. Albeit that Moses was employed to write the histories with his fiery pen, God guided the pen. It may be that David touched his harp and let sweet psalms of melody drop from his fingers, but God moved his hands over the living strings of his golden harp. Solomon sang canticles of love and gave forth words of consummate wisdom, but God directed his lips and made the preacher eloquent.

If I follow the thundering Nahum when the horses plow the water, or Habakkuk when he sees the tents of Chusan in affliction; if I read Malachi, when the earth is burning like an oven; if I turn to the smooth page of John, who tells of love, or the rugged chapters of Peter, who speaks of fire devouring God's enemies; if I turn to Jude, who launches forth anathemas upon the foes of God—everywhere I find God speaking. It is God's voice, not man's; the words are God's—the words of the Eternal, the Invisible, the Almighty, the Jehovah of ages.

This is God's Bible; and when I see it, I seem to hear a voice springing up from it, saying, "I am the Book of God; man, read me, I am God's writing; study my pages, for I was opened by God; love me, for He is my Author, and you will see Him visible and manifest everywhere."—Charles Spurgeon.