February 10

The people of the ancient world worshiped a pantheon of gods. Some religions today still do. The Hebrews were alone among the long-ago tribes who declared that there is one God. More correctly stated, the One True and Living God declared Himself to them and they received Him.

Their meticulous keeping of His Word enables us to have the most closely scrutinized work ever examined—the Holy Bible. There is no other book of antiquity of which so many ancient manuscripts exist. With each new fragment of scripture that archaeologists locate, the evidence that the Word of God is irrefutable becomes ever more convincing.

From the earliest pages of His revelation of Himself to the most recent findings, scholars discover that what He said about Himself in the beginning is yet proclaimed in the most recently discovered information about Him. As Deuteronomy 4:39 boldly states, “Know this in your heart today and consider it for all time, that the Lord your God is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath. There is none else.”

Were all the ancient manuscripts to be destroyed, were there never another confirming fragment to be found, were every Bible to be burned in an effort to blot out the God of our Salvation, we would still have the witness of His Holy Spirit in our hearts that will ever proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father! There has never been another god—in antiquity or among men today—who speaks to hearts and affirms His Lordship by love.