Severely Injured Christian Learned To Read Braille Bible With Tongue

Severely Injured Christian Learned to Read Braille Bible with Tongue

In the middle of Psalm 37:3 David reminds us that we should trust God enough to follow Him and walk in His ways. Or as David simply said: "Do good."

*"Do good." This is God's simple and sure command for us. Church, remember what Paul said about good works in Ephesians 2:8-10:

8. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

9. not of works, lest anyone should boast.

10. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

And since God's Word is so important, we ought to feed on it every day. Robert Summer wrote the amazing story of a man from Kansas who was severely injured in an explosion. His face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands.

*This man was a new Christian, and one of his greatest sorrows was that he could no longer read the Bible. Then he heard about a lady in England who read Braille with her lips. Hoping to do the same, he sent for some books of the Bible in Braille. He sadly discovered that the nerve endings in his lips had been destroyed by the explosion.

*But one day, as he brought a Braille page to his lips, his tongue happened to touch a few of the raised letters and he could feel them with his tongue. He thought, "I can read the Bible using my tongue." And by the time his story was written, that man had read the whole Bible four times with his tongue! (1)

*That wise Christian lost his eyes. But he never lost sight of the importance of God's Word.

(1) "The Wonder of the Word of God" by Robert L. Summer - Found in KERUX ILLUSTRATION COLLECTION - ID Number: 14705 - SOURCE: Fredericksburg Bible Illustrator Supplements - TITLE: "He Read It With His Tongue"