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My missing Bible

by Elizabeth Price

 

I opened the catalogue that is posted to me every few weeks and was mesmerized by the array of different Bibles.

 

There were Bibles for men, so I could not read them because I’m not a man.

 

There were Bibles for surfers, but I am a strictly land-dwelling species so I could not read those.

 

There were Bibles for teen-agers, but they’d jail me for fraud if they caught me reading them.

 

There were Bibles for explorers, but I am already way over the hill so I could not read them because of the mountain separating us.

 

There were Bibles for every group you could think of, and every one of them ostracized me because I didn’t fit.  I was totally excluded.

 

Could I make a suggestion, please?  Could we have a sinner’s Bible?

 

Nobody gets left out because ‘all have sinned and come short of the glory of God’.  I think it is the best Bible of all, don’t you?

 

“But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ

to die for us while we were still sinners.”
Romans 5:8

 

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