The guru instructs, "Compasses! Get your compasses." The poor souls are looking for divine direction for life. Christians have that! They prize the Bible as the very Word of God and read and ponder it for direction in every aspect of life. It's a lamp to their feet and a light to their pathway. It shows the way for every aspect of life. In Bible times they strapped small lamps to their legs allowing a lighted pathway in the dark.
Joshua declared, "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success" (Joshua 1:8).
In other words: Christians, loving the Book, possess a compass for life. We call it a truth-compass, a moral-compass, a make-sense-of-life compass and a know-how-to-live compass. Besides it has 'the message of all messages' for the saving of our souls from sin, hell, and death.
No wonder that Abraham Lincoln said, "In regard to this great book I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to men. All that the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book."
When people have tooth decay they go to a dentist. When Christians have TRUTH decay they need at once to 'brush up on their Bibles,' have the decay brought to the light and then proceed to root it out through the forgiveness and change that God gives. If they don't it is like heavy clouds making a compass meaningless and unable to give the necessary direction sought. As my dad often said, "Sin will keep us from the Book; but the Book keeps us from sin."
John Wesley remarked, "I want to know one thing, the way to heaven.......God Himself has condescended to teach us the way.......He hath written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book!At any price give me the book of God."
- dick christen
