Week 46 Day 2

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God’s Word Gives Wisdom

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Psalm 130:7–8

Fix’d on this ground will I remain,

Though my heart fail, and flesh decay;

This anchor shall my soul sustain,

When earth’s foundations melt away:

Mercy’s full power I then shall prove,

Lov’d with an everlasting love.

Abraham Lincoln leaned heavily on the Bible throughout his life and referred to it often. He used it in private and public meetings. He included passages from it in letters, and he used it to help develop some of his most memorable addresses. Lincoln once gave the reason why he relied on God’s Word. “In regard to this great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to men. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it.” Lincoln believed the Bible was the basis for the knowledge of good and evil, for faith to endure, and for the answers to life’s most perplexing problems. If the greatest leader in American history believed this about the Bible, what do you believe?