Christ wants the Bible to be as real to you as a personal letter from a close friend.

“I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
—John 15:15.

Jesus passed on the most important truths in the universe because He wants the very best for us. His Word brings us into God’s inner circle: those He confides in and personally instructs.

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.”
—John 16:33.

In order to experience this peace, this secure relationship with Christ, we need to read the letters He sends us. That’s what the Bible is: correspondence from heaven. Don’t leave those letters unopened just because they’re so familiar or have always been lying around. The transforming message you need is waiting to be discovered somewhere in the Word of God.

Here is one typical testimony about the Bible’s impact:

“I needed help, and I found it in Jesus. Every want was supplied, the hunger of my soul was satisfied; the Bible is to me the revelation of Christ. I believe in Jesus because He is to me a divine Saviour. I believe the Bible because I have found it to be the voice of God to my soul.”
—Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, page 461.