Have you ever seen a book on a bookshelf which is calling you saying, "Read me! Read me!" If there is any book like that surely it is the Bible. It does actually do that. There are many, many passages that call a person to read or hear its words.
When an individual regards the Bible as the word of God -- and reads it -- he forever becomes a different person. Such individuals are catalysts of change for everyone about them. The readers unavoidably influence even those who have no regard for the Bible as special.
Those cultures that have seriously regarded the Bible were changed at their roots by it. As a result of that, every other culture in the world has been forever changed.
Even the ones who hold to the view "there is no God" have been solidly and unquestionably influenced by the book about God -- the Bible. If the no-god believers were to attempt to reverse the influence the Bible they would have to undo thousands of years of history.
Each man and woman has at their fingertips access to a huge bank account. It is a mountain of wealth -- the wealth of God's wisdom, instructions, and wishes for us. Yet not many have tapped this tremendous source of God-given wealth provided via his written word, the Bible. In it we can know who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. Few, however, actually read the whole book. Of those who have, not many have read it more than once or twice. Yet through the pages of the Bible God urges us to read. The Bible speaks in many places of man's need put in the time to read its words.
