The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Isaiah 40:8

Back when Siri was new, a physician friend wanted to demonstrate the Siri technology on his iPhone. So, he asked Siri, what is the meaning of life? His phone responded with “Life: the condition that separates animals and plants from inorganic matter, including capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity and continual change preceding death.”

Is that it? I don’t think many of us agree with that cynical and limited view of life, do we? The passage above reminds us that God is faithful to His word, but some would ask if we can trust the Bible. As one young man asked the late Chuck Colson, “Do you still believe in every line of it? And if you don’t, then do you pick and choose which lines of the Bible to believe and which lines of the Bible to ignore? How do you pick? Do you use your own moral judgment?”

Colson responded that he did believe the Bible and gave a brief response by first affirming that “if the Bible is not accurate and reliable, then nothing we Christians believe about ourselves, the world around us, or even God, has any ultimate foundation.”

Siri is often helpful, but the application on my phone that answers life’s biggest questions is my Bible app. Set aside some time today to read it.