Among the final things that...
Illustration
Among the final things that Moses said to his people was to urge them, strictly, to give heed to the written law, the written word and will of God.
At the beginning of this century, Menelik II was the emperor of Ethiopia. The man was convinced that if he felt unwell, all he had to do in order to feel better was eat a few pages of the Bible! On the level, this is true; the man actually believed this. His strange use of the Bible did him little harm, as long as his scriptural intake was modest. However, in December of 1913, as he was recovering from a stroke, he suddenly felt extremely ill. On his instruction, the complete book of First Kings was torn from the Bible and fed to him, page by page. He died before he had consumed the entire book.
Well, this is not exactly the use of scripture that Moses meant. And it is not what God intends. The written word is to be processed through mind and spirit, not through the stomach!
At the beginning of this century, Menelik II was the emperor of Ethiopia. The man was convinced that if he felt unwell, all he had to do in order to feel better was eat a few pages of the Bible! On the level, this is true; the man actually believed this. His strange use of the Bible did him little harm, as long as his scriptural intake was modest. However, in December of 1913, as he was recovering from a stroke, he suddenly felt extremely ill. On his instruction, the complete book of First Kings was torn from the Bible and fed to him, page by page. He died before he had consumed the entire book.
Well, this is not exactly the use of scripture that Moses meant. And it is not what God intends. The written word is to be processed through mind and spirit, not through the stomach!
