The Power Of God's Word

There's nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation.
2 Timothy 3:15

The crew of HMS Bounty seized control of the ship. Goaded by the cruelty of Captain Bligh, they gave him and his faithfuls a boat, a push, and watched them float out to sea. In the spring of 1789 the mutinous sailors settled on Pitcairn Island, a tiny dot in the South Pacific. They burned the ship, took Tahitian wives and recruited Tahitian workers. It had all the makings of a tropical paradise. But they turned it into a living hell, a cesspool of adultery, violence and drunkenness. Within a decade the natives attacked the settlers. Only one survived: Alexander Smith. Left on a five square kilometre island, surrounded by natives and half-breed children he did something remarkable. He began to read a Bible crew members had salvaged from the Bounty. "When I came to the life of Jesus," Smith later explained to his superiors, "my heart began to open like doors swinging apart.
Once I was sure that God was a loving and merciful Father to them that repent, it seemed to me I could feel His very presence, Sir, and I grew more and more sure every day of His guiding hand." The Scripture transformed not just Alexander Smith, but the entire island. When the British Navy discovered Pitcairn Island in 1808, its order and decency astonished them. Smith was spared, and the name Pitcairn became a byword for piety. From immorality to piety. What made the miraculous difference? The Bible! "There's nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus."