Found this the other day from a guy who wrote a great book I once recommended. Check out the profound thought and challenge in this short paragraph (by Mark Thompson):
“It is frighteningly easy to be bewildered by the pressure to second guess the teaching of Scripture or to cast it aside as irrelevant to the men and women of the twenty-first century.
“Careful attention to what the Bible actually does say is the only effective antidote.
“What God has to say is good. God’s word nourishes life, strengthens relationships and builds churches towards maturity.”
Did you catch that? The only antidote to that pressuring doubt of God’s Word is to read the written Word–and just to read what it actually says. When we need God’s help fighting doubt, or when we need answers to the questions that dog us, sitting with Him and letting Him speak in the pages of Scripture is the surest way back home.
This reminds me of a short paragrapgh on the same subject that I found in the classic spurgeon commentary on psalms, “The Treasury of David.” Here it is:
“Going two miles into a neighbourhood where very few could read, to spend an evening in reading to a company who were assembled to listen, and about to return by a narrow path through the woods, where paths diverged, I was provided with a torch of light wood, or “pitch pine.” I objected; it was too small, weighing not over half a pound. “It will light you home”, answered my host. I said, “The wind may blow it out.” He said, “It will light you home.” “But if it should rain?” I again objected. “It will light you home, “he insisted.
Contrary to my fears, it gave abundant light to my path all the way home, furnishing an apt illustration, I often think, of the way in which doubting hearts would be led safely along the “narrow way.” If they would take the Bible as their guide, it would be a lamp to their feet, leading to the heavenly home. One man had five objections to the Bible. If he would take it as a lamp to his feet, it would “light him home.” Another told me he had two faults to find with the Bible. I answered him in the words of my good friend who furnished the torch, “It will light you home.” “The American Messenger, “1881.
How true it is; “Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path”Ps.119:105