The Geneva Bible

The Geneva Bible

You might or might have not heard about the Geneva Bible. It was the very first Bible to be mass printed making it readily available to the public. John Milton, William Shakespeare and John Bunyan are few of the prominent men in History who used this Bible.
The Bible contains a short poem that I want to bring to the reader's attention. The poem describes the true worth of the Word of God and its innumerable benefits to the human soul. Here is the poem:

Here is the spring where waters flow,

To quench our heat of sin:

Here is the tree where truth doth grow,

To lead our lives therein:

Here is the judge that stints the strife,

When men's devices fail:

Here is the bread that feeds the life

That death cannot assail.

The tidings of salvation dear,

Comes to our ears from hence:

The fortress of our faith is here,

And shield of our defense.

Then be not like the swine that hath

A pearl at his desire,

And takes more pleasure from the trough

And wallowing in the mire.

Read not this book in any case,

But with a single eye:

Read not but first desire God's grace,

To understand thereby.

Pray still in faith with this respect,

To bear good fruit therein,

That knowledge may bring this effect,

To mortify your sin.

Then happy you shall be in all your life,

What so to you befalls:

Yes, double happy you shall be,

When God by death you calls.

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First Post

I am starting this blog as a response to the great change that God has worked in me in these recent months. I don't have any big plans or ideas or dreams concerning this blog, only a desire to record everything I learn in my Christian life, both from scripture and experience.

I am not a great writer,  which will become evident from my many run-on sentences and maybe a grammatical error here and there, but the point of this blog is not to show off my writing prowess it is to record and share any insight I receive from the word of God. The main tool that I will be using for Bible study will be a MacArthur Study Bible (ESV), I recently purchased from the "Grace to You" website. I find the footnotes in this particular study Bible extremely useful to understand scripture and I wholeheartedly recommend the bible to anyone who wants to study the bible and retain its ideas in a more in-depth manner.

Since, I am working and going to school, I am well aware that I won't get time to post everyday.The reader can expect posts on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. That is all for this post, i just wanted to get things off to a good start. May the Lord bless this blog and anyone who happens to stumble across it.

Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand. - Zech 4:10

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