My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible
'I was 15 years old. I found out through Facebook that my boyfriend had cheated on me with another girl. I was heartbroken.
I had not felt proper pain or rejection before that. I got my Bible out. I had heard it read on a Sunday but had kept it in a drawer and didn’t understand the fascination with it.
But then, the words spoke into how I was feeling and the situation I was in.
The first thing that I read was in Psalm 118.8: “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man”.
I realised that I could trust in God. For the next few weeks, I heard God speaking into my life through the Bible every night.
It was such an exciting time. Every night I was excited to go to bed and read the Bible.
The Bible gave me a new freedom. If God thinks I’m amazing, I realised, then I could have a different outlook on life.'
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My wife and I were told we’d likely never have children
I was furious. I had just come back from being interviewed by a college
I became very ill when I was 20 years old and was hospitalised
I’m sometimes guilty of thinking I know better than everyone else
I was an executive in a company. A colleague had retired and died very suddenly.
I keep coming back to John 6.67–68
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