August 7, 2018

CHRIST the RESTORER: Of the Good Shepherd it says, “He restores my soul” (Ps 23:3). Wilbur Smith, in his Treasury of Books for Bible Study, spoke of G. Campbell Morgan’s preaching as “the greatest Biblical preaching of the twentieth century.” Whether it is or not, Morgan’s commentaries are still valued for their careful exposition and warm devotion. But many people don’t know the crisis of faith he faced in his youth: “I found myself plunged into a world of which I had no knowledge up to that time.” Assailed by “the whole intellectual world…under the mastery of physical scientists and a materialistic and rationalistic philosophy,” he was no longer sure he could trust the Bible. What did he do? Locking his books away, he bought a new, unmarked Bible. “If it be the Word of God, and if I come to it with an unprejudiced and open mind, it will bring assurance to my soul of itself.” The result? “The Bible found me,” he wrote. “I have been a student of it ever since.”