Trust the Process That Protected the Bible

My daughter Ashlyn and I were recently talking about the Bible, and she was having this wonderful "aha" moment. I explained to her that the Bible didn't just float down from heaven as a single, golden, leather-bound book. I told her the real story isn't about magic — it's about God working through the hands of devoted people over millennia. Watching her eyes light up, I realized how rarely we tell this story.

We often talk about the divine inspiration of the Bible, and rightly so. But we sometimes skip over its very human history. Maybe we’re afraid that the "messy" process might weaken our faith? But what if that human story is actually one of the most powerful arguments for the Bible's reliability? It’s a story that rests on a divine guarantee. The prophet Isaiah said, "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever" (Isa. 40:8). The rest of this story is about how God faithfully fulfilled that promise.