<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+40:1-11">Isaiah 40:1-11</span></span></p><p>What do we mean when we say that the Bible is "inspired"? There are various views. One is natural inspiration - that the Bible is inspired in the same way that any work of genius is, like Pilgrim's Progress for example. Another view is of partial inspiration, which claims that the Bible is not a scientific textbook and therefore cannot be trusted in scientific matters, such as the origin of the species. It is, however, to be trusted in matters that relate to salvation. The third view can be described as dictational inspiration - that God dictated the Bible to its writers verbatim, as a businessman would dictate a letter to a secretary. The fourth view is of verbal inspiration, which holds that every word in the Bible came from the mouth of God. The fifth and final view is of supervisal inspiration - that nothing is included in the Bible which God did not want there and nothing is omitted which was meant to have a place in the sacred book. I hold to the last view - supervisal inspiration. I rule out natural inspiration and partial inspiration, but not necessarily dictational inspiration, at least in part. Large sections of the Bible were personally dictated to men by God, the Ten Commandments being just one example. The writers of the Bible were, I believe, divinely indemnified against errors of observation, lapses of memory, and unintentional misrepresentation of facts. Their writings were honest, accurate, and supervised by the Holy Spirit before being compiled into this wonderful book we call the Bible. No wonder it is often referred to as the "book of books." </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">O God, I know Your Word is inspired, for it inspires me. Help me to have Your Word hidden in my heart so deeply that it becomes the hidden spring of action, determining my conduct and my character. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="jer+36:1-7">Jeremiah 36:1-7</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="re+1:1-20">Revelation 1:1-20</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="re+2:1">Revelation 2:1</span></li><li>12,18</li><li>7,14, 22</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What was Jeremiah's experience?</li><li>What was John's experience?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever." (v. 8) 

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="lu+24:13-35">Luke 24:13-35</span></span></p><p>The Bible is unique in its varied penmanship. The Scriptures were written over a period of some fifteen hundred years by about forty different penmen, and yet although of such composite character, the book displays an amazing and essential unity. The most wonderful thing about the written Word is that woven through it from end to end, like a golden thread, the living Word can be observed. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the account of the historic walk to Emmaus, when Luke tells us that "beginning with Moses [he could not go further back in the Bible than that!] and all the Prophets, [Christ] explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself" (v. 27). Christ in all the Scriptures! There you have the mystery of the Bible compressed into a single phrase. Imagine picking up a book written by such contributors as Shakespeare, John Donne, John Bunyan, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Jeremy Taylor, as well as many unknown writers, and then finding it is a complete biography of Sir Winston Churchill. One would turn its pages in utter amazement. Yet we discover something similar when we read the pages of our Bible. Herein lies its uniqueness. Those forty different authors did not know when they were writing that they were putting together a book that tells us as no other the full story of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whatever other faiths claim for their books - that they were inspired or dictated by God - the Bible, so all Christians believe, is God's one and only published work. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">O Father, it is no surprise that so much of Jesus comes out of the Bible when so much of Him has gone into it. And the more I see of Him in its pages, the more I see there is to be seen. And the more I want to see. Thank You, my Father. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+119:81-96">Psalm 119:81-96</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+40:8">Isaiah 40:8</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+5:18">Matthew 5:18</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+24:35">Matthew 24:35</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>How did the psalmist view God's Word?</li><li>What was Isaiah's conviction?</li></ul></div></div>

"Were not our hearts burning ... while he talked with us ... and opened the Scriptures to us?" (v. 32) 

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+8:18-34">Matthew 8:18-34</span></span></p><p>Have you ever wondered why Jesus is never referred to as Jesus the Great? We speak of Alexander the Great, Charles the Great, and Peter the Great but never Jesus the Great. And why? Because He dwells in a sphere where no real comparisons are possible. It simply doesn't seem right to use the designation "the Great" of our Lord as we would of others. Our Lord has no peers, no rivals, and no successors. He is so different from every other leader, so unique, so superior, that He qualifies for a place on His own. The things He said about God are not the same as the sayings of any other religious teacher. The claims He made for Himself are unparalleled. His analysis of human society goes deeper and is more devastating than that pronounced by any other man. The challenges and demands He made on His followers are more searching than those put forward by anyone - past and present. As James Francis said of Him: "He never wrote a book, never held an office, never had a family, never went to college, never did any of the things that usually accompany greatness. But ... He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of its column of progress. "I am within the mark when I say that all the armies that have ever marched, all the navies that were ever built, all the parliaments that have ever sat, all the kings that have ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of people upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life." </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Jesus, my Lord and my God, all the descriptions of You fall short of defining Your real glory and worth. Yet my soul recognizes, even though it cannot put it into words, the glory that belongs to You by sovereign right. I love You Lord Jesus. With all my heart. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="isa+40:1-31">Isaiah 40:1-31</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+89:6">Psalm 89:6</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="joh+1:34">John 1:34</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What question did Isaiah pose?</li><li>What was John's testimony?</li></ul></div></div>

"The men were amazed and asked, 'What kind of man is this?' " (v. 27) 

<p>THE word of our God is like His nature, immutably the same; He saith, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my mouth." Believer, this is thy comfort; every promise is confirmed and shall be fulfilled. But what hath He said? He hath said, "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. No weapon formed against thee shall prosper. I will strengthen thee, I will help thee. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." All that He saith cometh surely to pass. Not one jot or title can fail. He never spake hastily, insincerely, or unwisely; He has drawn His plan, given His word, and every thing shall answer the end He had in view. Man may be disappointed, God cannot. Man may change his mind, or break his word, but God cannot. He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Himself. Trust, and be not afraid.</p><p class="mlr40 italic">The word of God shall still endure,<br> Faithful, immutable, and sure:<br> This solid rock shall never break,<br> Though earth should to her centre shake.<br> And while it stands we should not fear,<br> For all we need is promised there.</p>

Written by James Smith for his own flock around 1840, but such was the demand that by 1846 over thirty thousand copies where in circulation.

The Believer's Daily Remembrancer

"The word of our God shall stand for ever." Isaiah 40:8

<p>The contrast really intended here is not between the word of God and the grass of the field; for there are many other things to share with Scripture the honor of out-living the flowers of earth. In one sense the Bible resembles the grass of the field; if by great efforts the latter be rooted up and cast into the fire, much time will not elapse before that same spot is seen verdant again with a new growth. And many rulers have sought to destroy the crop of Bibles sown in their do minions, but have spent their strength for nought. The contrast is really between man, his works and his glory, and the word of God. Like grass, man shall wither; like the flower, his glory shall pass away; but the word of our God endureth forever. </p><p>Even so, Isaiah! The word of God uttered by thee has come down to us through twenty-five troubled centuries, serenely riding out the storms of every generation, and beholding the wreck of many empires. Whilst thou wert writing thine unnoticed page, stupendous monuments were being erected here and there in the world; but ruin has long since overtaken these. During seventy generations the providence of God has steadily corroborated thy statements, and shown that the nations, before God, are nothing, less than nothing and vanity. </p><p>With what avidity would men drink in the intelligence that a plant had been discovered whose fruit conferred immortality. With what a frantic joy would they precipitate themselves to ward that stray plant of heaven found upon the earth. But the word of God really possesses and really communicates immortality. It endures forever, and he who embraces it by faith, endures forever. It is the word of life; and nothing shall by any means harm them who have made it their own. In the last day, when there shall be a terrific overthrow of the pomp, pride, and strength of man, the word of God, so oft rejected, so much despised upon the earth, will be seen upon the throne of God, and all the friends of that word around about the throne. Ye neologians and rationalists, and all who have sought to draw the pen of unhallowed criticism through this or that text, how will you stand confounded when you see indestructible life and glory belonging to the word of God. You will feel as though you had been detected in an attempt to murder angels, beings possessing the life of heaven. </p>

A daily devotional written by a Baptist Missionary to India, Reverend George Bowen (1816-1888) over 150 years ago.

Bowen's Daily Meditations

" The grass withereth, the flower faileth; but the word of our God shall stand forever." - Isaiah 40:8. 

<div>
<h3>The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.</h3>
<p><span style="color: #008000;">Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.—David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.—“God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”—“‘I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them.’ This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.”—Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">He who promised is faithful.—Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?—“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”—The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.</span></p>
</div>

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. 

<p>So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. § What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?<br><br>Surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. § The world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.<br><br>Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. § Use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away. § Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.</p>

Evening Daily Light

 As for man, his days are like grass;as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.For the wind passes over it, and it is gone,and its place remembers it no more. 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num poetry-line">8 </sup><poetry>The grass withers and the flowers   fall,<br/><indent>but the word   of our God endures   forever.  ”</indent><span class="pb"></span><poetry></poetry> </span></p>

The grass withers and the flowers<cr>1</cr>  fall,<br/><indent>but the word<cr>2</cr>  of our God endures<cr>3</cr>  forever.<cr>4</cr> ”</indent><pb/><poetry>

Isaiah 40:8

 8 The grass withers and the flowers   fall, but the word   of our God endures   forever.  ” 

From Wikipedia: 

The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1978 by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society). The NIV was published to meet the need for a modern translation done by Bible scholars using the earliest, highest quality manuscripts available. Of equal importance was that the Bible be expressed in broadly understood modern English.

The NIV is published by Zondervan in the United States and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. The NIV was updated in 1984 and 2011 and has become one of the most popular and best-selling modern translations.

OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia; additional sources;
NT: UBS Greek New Testament; Novum Testamentum Graece; additional sources;

New International Version

 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” 

<p><span class="bible-text "><poetry>The grass withers and the flowers   fall,<br/><indent>but the word   of our God endures   forever.  ”</indent><span class="pb"></span><poetry></poetry> </span></p>

 The grass withers and the flowers   fall, but the word   of our God endures   forever.  ” 

Bible Verse of the Day

August 10, 2024

Isaiah 40:8 NIV

Verse by Verse Bible Study

More on the web

Group of Brands