Thankful for the New Testament

I'm so thankful for the New Testament! The New Testament is the most vital book in the world. It's matter, meaning, and message represent the highest of ideas. It is a book of unlimited power and potency. There is an inextinguishable divine fire flaming through it's pages, causing such a spiritual explosiveness that it makes new men while shaking whole nations.

There can be no denying that His transforming truth, God's Last Will and Testament, has indeed changed the whole world. It was intended to do just that. In the New Testament, the supreme subject is Jesus, the supreme object is human salvation, and the supreme project is a purpose for life and a hope after death. 

We must understand that the greatest need of our troubled 21st century is a return to the New Testament, for it goes right to the heart of the human problem. The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart! The New Testament makes new men. It did this in the first century and it can do it in the 21st century. 

Superficially, the 21st century is different from the first, but, fundamentally, it's very much the same. There's the same heart-need, the same heart-cry, and there's the same unchanging, all powerful, all sufficient answer given by the New Testament. That answer of course, is Jesus the Christ! Yes, the New Testament is about a man who is more than a man. It's message and meaning center around a carpenter from Nazareth, but He was much more than a carpenter! He was the Messiah, man's Savior, God with us, and the hope of the world! 

Listen to the words of Jesus in Matthew 11:28-30, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Jesus invites all men to come to Him today, as He and the apostles did back in the 1st century. Our homes and our nation will be strong if we sincerely and fully abide in the teaching of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the New Testament.

May we strive to be a shining light, a testament to our love and devotion to Christ, as we abide in His New Testament!