Giving Wings to Truth

“Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.”

- Johann Gutenberg

Gutenberg had an unbelievably powerful, world-changing vision: to give wings to the truth through the printed page. There is a limitation to his vision, though, for the printed page is not truth in and of itself, but merely a medium by which truth is conveyed. Far more powerful than any written word is the living Word of God, who strides out of the pages of the Bible in the Person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is Truth personified. He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). The printed words of Scripture become truth only when they are interpreted properly and only when they bear fruit in our lives.