Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth
As in any other subject, you want to be your best. A way to accomplish this is by reading the owner’s manual. You want to know how each part works, what is good for it and what is bad. What to eat, not to eat, and what to do if you get sick. If you are having marital problems you read a book on marriage. When you are sad, you read a book that will lift your spirits. When you need to go somewhere you get out a map and plot your course, so you don’t get lost.
As you go through life you have many questions, and to those questions you get a variety of answers. How do you know which one is right? Which one is true? How do you know whom you can trust? All the questions about life, death and what lies between, is in this book. How to pick a husband, wife, how to raise children, how to treat the elderly, they young, and the homeless. This is the best survival guide ever written. It has been on the best sellers list since its first printing! Every time you read this book it reveals new and wondrous things to you. It is an ongoing lesson on how to get off this planet alive. The Bible is the living breathing Word of God, ageless, timeless, and priceless. And it comes with a guarantee! For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
As parents we need to teach our children tried and true ways to live. This great country was founded on the truths found in the Bible. It proved to give the moral guidance to form good behavior and therefore good citizens. It is the very fabric of understanding what is right and wrong in the world. This is the survival guide every child should learn by heart, from it being read to them as toddlers, until they can navigate the pages on their own. You could never give your child a more precious gift.
We as authors have found in this precious book, parables, sayings, and commandments that help us every day in our lives and in our writings. And that is priceless!
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
II Timothy 2:15
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalms 119:105
For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
Psalms 119:89