Week 45 Day 5
The Bible Applies to Your Life
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:1
O Love, thou bottomless abyss!
My sins are swallow’d up in thee;
Cover’d is my unrighteousness,
From condemnation now I’m free;
While Jesus’ blood through earth and skies,
“Mercy, free boundless mercy!” cries.
Even in nineteenth-century America, people were doubting the Bible’s relevance to their lives. Today the Bible is hardly mentioned as the standard for one’s life or for a community or a nation. Abraham Lincoln, however, believed that the Bible was God’s standard for all of life. He started reading the Bible at a young age and memorized much of its text. “The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable, to human affairs,” he proclaimed in a debate against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln leaned heavily on the Bible for both his personal and professional life. By following the principles in the Bible, he formed his views on freedom, justice, and equality. That is also how he persevered through some very tough times. The Bible was practical in 1865, and it still is today. If Lincoln could live by the Word of God, how much more can we today.