TODAY'S DEVOTION ON THE BIBLE
To prevent us from becoming guilty of Bibliolatry—worshiping God’s written Word, the Bible, rather than God’s Living Word, Jesus Christ—God prevented the preservation of the original manuscripts of the Scripture.
In Deuteronomy 34:1-8, we are told how God mysteriously buried Moses in a secret location on Mount Nebo. “Why,” we must ask, “did God want to keep the location of Moses’ sepulcher secret.” Was it not because He knew that Moses’ sepulcher would be turned into a shrine by the Hebrews? Instead of worshipping Him, the God of Moses, the Lord knew His people would worship Moses, the servant of God.
People are so fickle, even the people of God, that we are ever prone to worship sacred writings or faithful servants rather than the God who inspired the writings or whom the faithful served. Thus, to prevent us from being distracted from the worship of Him alone, God secretly buries a Moses and does not miraculously preserve the original manuscripts of his Word.
Don Walton
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