The Holy Bible

After reading the book in hand, I simply flipped it back to its cover. The title was emblazoned on the cover: 

The Holy Bible

The Holy Bible is, in any words, I can find from my head, indecipherably amazing. How could I deny the impact it has had on me? It’s hardly any of a good book. The reason for setting it apart from other books ever written is that it is God’s words. 

Mum has ever told me that God’s words are like Global Positioning System (GPS) as if it gives us the directions of the path we tend to go. My mum always says that:

“When you read the Bible, it speaks. It speaks, God speaks.”

It is not a philosophical scripture but many philosophers have been divinely inspired by myriads of its philosophy. It is not a historical book but it details historical events, and its truthfulness and accuracy are subject to verification one after another. It is not a literature masterpiece but the intricate details of the arts have never ceased to awe people around the world. It is not sold in common bookstores but it is today the most widely published book in the world. 

The most important main characters will be God Himself, Jesus Christ, and everybody in this world. It is a living book which reveals authority and power. God, the author, makes promises and prophecies, and He will definitely fulfill them.

I guess the Holy Bible has nothing more than living my life with God Himself. As I have known His words are true, I learn to accept the fact that challenges and predicaments are His ways of training me to be braver and stronger. After all, I take every single day as God’s gift and thank Him from my deepest core.

                                                                                                                                  

Through this book, I know in better ways of living every day with joy and peace. When stark bleak circumstances overwhelmed my mind, God’s words have never failed to rear upon me, to calm the undulated twists and turns. When I was distressed, I could not help narrowing my sight on the empty, gruesome world. Little did I know the greatest wisdom of the world and life is crammed compactly in the Holy Bible. If they were not from the Bible, then where would I get the answers from? The questions were once esoteric ones.

Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life and universe?

"Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now." (1 Corinthians 13:12)

Then, I closed my weary eyes, my ears listened yet it was quiet and tranquil as God’s words had drowned them all.


- I won consolation prize in DKLS Linguistic Ambassador Awards Essay Writing Competition, organised by BCCC and Cambridge University.