"The words of the Lord are pure words" (Psalm 12:6). Oh! blessed word, what a treasure thou art! We can never be thankful enough that the Lord has given us such a wonderful volume as is the Bible and that the words thereof have been kept pure through many centuries of time. David says, "Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." And thus He has kept them and preserved them unto this day, and will do so for as long as the world shall stand. 

    Satan has vented all his power and wrath against the words of the Lord, from the time of his appearance to Eve in the Garden of Eden until now, and will continue to do so until that awful day when he and all his cohorts are cast into the lake of fire. But none of his efforts have succeeded in totally stamping them out, and in fact, the more he has sought to destroy them, the more they have been published abroad. 

    Speaking of the words of the Lord, Job expressed the sentiments of multitudes when he said he had esteemed them more than his necessary food (See Job 23:12). At the time Job spoke these words he had very few, if any, of the words of the Lord on the printed page, but he no doubt had enough of them hidden in his heart that they were a source of great delight to him (Job is the oldest book in the Bible and the first of the poetical books). 

    David has a great deal to say in the 119th Psalm about the word of the Lord and of the value he placed upon it. In verse 105 he said it was a lamp unto his feet and a light unto his path, and in the 140th verse he said, 

    "Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it." Many others of God's people have likewise found it to be a continual help to them and have for many years treasured it and absorbed themselves in its precious truth. "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes" (Psalm 119:11).