A little boy once told me that the word ‘Bible’ stands for Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth – B.I.B.L.E. I thought that was a pretty good insight coming from a child. In fact it’s not all that different from something the Apostle Paul said about the Bible: ‘Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.’
I remember, in the days when I first became aware of a spiritual emptiness within me and was starting to look for some deeper meaning to life, there was a copy of the Bible in a glass frame on my local railway station. Below it were written the words, ‘Read yourself rich.’ And I did. I’ve been being enriched by it ever since; The Maker’s Manual – my Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.