We have entered into an age in which many people are leaving behind their printed Bibles in favor of digital equivalents. Any new technology introduces both benefits and drawbacks, and while there are many wonderful features that come with our digital Bibles, there is this downside: Our Bibles are no longer a visible demonstration of our commitment to God’s Word.
It has long been the case that some of the holiest people own some of the most tattered Bibles. Or as someone once said in a quote that has since been attributed to any number of people, “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
Placed on the gleaming wooden coffin of many a precious saint has been a Bible whose cover is worn, whose pages are falling out, whose margins are scrawled with lead and ink. As these people committed themselves to God’s Word day after day, as they carried their Bible to church week after week, as they read it and marked it and integrated it into their mornings and evenings, it began to show inevitable wear and tear. And as they went to be with the Lord, they left it behind as a precious artifact that attested to their love for the Lord and their long labor in his Word. As that Bible grew ever more beat-up, their soul grew ever more cleaned up.
