“Can you imagine a world without words?” is the question on the LITERACY AOTEAROA pamphlet, I picked up yesterday together with other material including books, at a stall in the old Pak’nSave carpark in Commerce Street here in Kaitaia.
Inside the pamphlet it says, “Literacy is reading, writing, listening, speaking and thinking. Literacy is communicating.”
I surely like to read and to write. I read almost all the words, I come across, no matter where they are.
There are many books in our home, and I like to spend time in libraries.
There is one special book in the world. Why is it special? Because the book is not written by a human, but by God the HOLY SPIRIT. That book is the Bible. The Bible is “The Word of God”.
In Hebrews 4:12 in the Bible we read:
“For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double- edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
No, I cannot imagine a world without words, especially not without “the word of God”.