In an article titled, “Keep that Bible Out of my Room,” an atheist, Buckner, believes that no religious literature should be provided in government-owned lodging, and he presented that concern to management at the Amicalola Falls State Park. He wanted them removed from the rooms.

In response to the atheist, William Hunters, a guest at the lodge stated, “I know that Bibles have saved people’s lives. They go into a motel room and are going to blow their brains out, and then they find that Bible.” http://www.timesofisrael.com/keep-that-bible-out-of-my-room/

Now Travelodge has decided that the free Bible will no longer be allowed in their hotel rooms, even though there is proof that the Bible in those hotel rooms has saved lives!

In the article “How a Gideon Bible Literally Saved My Life” by Bernic Dymet, Bernic wrote, “I remember one time in a Brisbane hotel, standing on the 8th floor balcony looking down at the concrete driveway below. I was being pulled in two directions. My loss and grief and desperation were calling me over the edge. And somehow, through what I’d read in the Bible that night before, God was calling me back inside to pray. His life was saved that day by God’s inspired word.”

The article, “Choosing between a Pistol and a Gideon Bible,” Jack had a pistol and nothing left in life. After throwing the Bible on the floor of his hotel room, he decided to pick it up and read it. For the first time in the moment of great despair, he cried out to God for help. While he was on that floor weeping, a peace came into his life that he still has to this day.

http://www.gideons.org/ChangedLives/ChangedLivesText.aspx

The Bible is our instruction and survival manual, given and inspired by our Creator God. While people are trying to remove the Bible from public places, do you value your instruction and survival manual? 

Everything we buy comes with an operational manual showing us how to use it, and how to fix it when it is broken. God inspired a manual on how to operate our human body and mind; to fix us when we are broken. God reaches out and encourages us through His Word, when we are at our lowest points, like the examples of Jack and Bernic Dymet.

In 2 Timothy 3:16, it reads, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” The Bible gives us a full and complete instruction manual on how to live our lives here on the earth in preparation for an eternal life with the Father.

Men, who have been deceived by Satan, may try to remove that vital manual from public places, but most of us probably have a copy in our homes. We must daily partake of the word of God in order to become closer to our Creator, to be encouraged by Him, and be taught how to love one another. No matter how hard people try to get rid of it, the Word of God, the Bible, will stand! So value that survival manual, study it, so you can be prepared for every moment. Our great Creator God has given it to us as a survival guide for this life. It will save your life!