My Grandmother’s Bible

My grandmother, Mary Edna Latty, has been gone for many years. I have her New Testament. The words in that Book are ancient but they still hold true.  People come and go but the truths inside this Book never change.

Through the years my grandmother had stuck a few things inside her New Testament for safekeeping: a newspaper clipping or two, a pickle dish pattern for a quilt top, a small card with a Mother’s Day poem on it that may have contained earrings someone gave her as a gift. These things are inconsequential compared to their hiding place but they have endured, along with the Book.

Our lives are like the newspaper clippings or the small square of cardboard. If we hide ourselves in God’s Word, we too will endure. Forever. The entire Bible consists of both Old and New Testaments. One of my favorite chapters is Psalm 91. Verse 4: “His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.”  In olden days, a shield was large and was useful to hide behind when arrows fell thick and fast. A buckler was much smaller and was used for protection in hand to hand fighting. God’s Word is protection against the enemies of Christians, no matter from what direction the danger comes. It is a shield that endures.