Where's your bible ?

WARNING

spoiler alert !! If you have not watch the book of Eli, please don't read this note because I am telling the end of the story. Read this after you watched the movie...

I just watched a movie title "Book of Eli" by Denzel Washington...it's a great movie....and talks to me a lot about the importance of a bible....

The book of Eli tells the story of a person with the last bible on earth....for some reason, people in the world are destroying all copies of the bible that ever existed.....and after that a huge war breaks and the earth is left to rubble with only a few people alive...and to make it worse, these people try to kill, rob and rape whatever is left....

This one man, Eli, happens to be the bearer of that bible......he truly values the bible that he protects it with his life, as it is the only copy on earth.....and what amazes me is that at the end (SPOILER WARNING) when the book is taken by the villain, he doesn't seem to worry at all. Do you know why ? Because Eli REMEMBERS the whole bible !!! From Genesis to Revelation, verse by verse, chapter by chapter verbatim.....

We often took our bible for granted....sometimes it's either we let it collect dust or we never bring it with us as it is too heavy, especially with the digital bible available now.....

We are still blessed to stay in the country where bibles are still widely sold and available....
We are still blessed that we can go to church without being persecuted...
We are still blessed that carrying bible in the public is not against the law...

Here's a thought .... What happen when suddenly ALL the bible in the world is banned and destroyed ? What happen when Skynet in the movie Terminator comes true ? When all digital gadgets are no longer usable anymore as they are taken over by an evil super computer ( don't think that this is impossible in the near future.....the Current fastest supercomputer system is AMD Opteron-based Cray XT5 Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was announced as the fastest operational supercomputer, with a sustained processing rate of 1.759 PFLOPS - for info about FLOPS. find it in WIKIPEDIA in this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer#cite_note-3 perhaps it's only a matter of time that A.I. developed by humans will grow a conscience....)

Anyway, back to laptop =)

How many verses of the bible that you remember ? How longing are you to read the bible when you can't anymore ? When it's not available anymore, we start to value the one thing that we never look upon at the first place....

I am guilty of this too.....I don't value the bible as much as I should have been...the book of life....I am not saying that we should put our bible on a shrine and praying on it......because it's not the bible that gives life but the Creator and Savior that does......and he also stresses one important point about the bible....It's not only reading the book that is important, but also living it.....

In the end, Eli passed away.....after he finished dictating the whole bible to the people who will put it to print.........he never regret any suffering that he has to endure in his life protecting the bible and finishing the mission the Lord has given him....this is his final words before he died....part of it was taken from II Timothy 4:7

Dear Lord, Thank you for giving me the strength and the conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me. Thank you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path. And for keeping me resolute when all around seemed lost. Thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way. Thank you for any good that I may have done, I'm so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you watched over me. Thank you for finally
allowing me to rest. I'm so very tired, but I go now to my rest at peace. I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.

Keep the faith, fight the good fight....and don't forget to bring your instruction book while at it...

God bless you all.....