DAILY READINGS: Esther 2; Zechariah 12 to 13:6; Revelation 19:1-10
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. 1:1
It is said that Queen Victoria once asked her distinguished prime minister, W. E. Gladstone (1809-98), “In all your wide reading, what in your judgment is the most sublime passage in literature?” Without hesitation Gladstone answered, “The first verse of the first chapter of Genesis.” This first verse of the Bible is sublime, direct, positive, and complete. Believe the fact of God and you can believe all else that follows in the Bible. To deny God’s existence is to be labeled a fool (Ps. 14:1; 53:1). —W. Ross Rainey
That there is not a God, the fool doth in his heart conclude:
They are corrupt, their works are vile; not one of them doth good.
—Psalm 14:1 (The Scottish Psalter)