The Need to Know

The Bible is a veritable mine of information on the fact of God’s faithfulness. More than 4,000 years ago He said: “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease” (Gn 8:22). Every year furnishes us with fresh evidence that He has not gone back on His Word.

In Genesis 15:13-14, God declared to Abram: “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years. However … afterward they will go out with many possessions.” Did that happen? Exodus 12:41 says: “At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt.”

The prophet Isaiah predicted that a virgin would conceive and bear a son whose name would be Immanuel (Isa 7:14). Centuries later the prediction came to pass. In Galatians 4:4 we read: “When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman.”

I wish I had the space to take you through the pages of Scripture and show you how faithful God has been to His Word. But you have a Bible for yourself; study it. Read it to know God. This is the basis of our confidence in Him. And this is why the Bible fairly bulges with this great and gripping truth. The more of God’s truth we pack into our souls, the better equipped we are for the road that lies ahead.

Further Study

Mal 3:7; Ps 102:27; 103:17; James 1:1-17

What did the Lord declare to Israel?

How did James put it?