The Living Word

As the Bible is our holy book, the Quran is Islam’s holy book. Mixed in with the teachings of Mohammed are bits and pieces of the Old and New Testaments that have been twisted to have new meanings. Muslims particularly take pride in the fact that the Quran is largely still taught today in the original Arabic. There are literally Muslims in the world who don’t speak or understand the language of their scripture but still choose to memorize in an unfamiliar tongue and claim to live by it. They believe the Quran is the revelation of God given to mankind and pride themselves on being “people of the book,” but their book is a dead end.

In contrast, the Bible is a collection of writings from many authors — the inspired words of God — that together tell the story of how He has revealed Himself to the world. We can only truly appreciate it with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. However, as precious as this text is to us, it is not the Word of God. That title belongs to Jesus alone. He is the revelation of God to us.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:1, ESV

Prayer

God, I thank you that you speak to us through your Word. I pray for “people of the book” to be transformed into “people of the Word”; they would see and know God through Jesus, who is the Word and the only way to the Father. Would you open the eyes of many to the fallacies and incongruences in the Quran that the contradictions Muslims have come to accept in its pages would stand in glaring opposition to each other and the truth? Lord, launch them into a pursuit of what is right. Let them turn and find fruitful and everlasting identity in the true Word of God.