David’s Daily Devotion for Jan. 30

January 30, 2025 – Good Morning!  It’s Thursday, January 30.

We have a good library here in Center, Texas.  And there’s a good one nearby in Nacogdoches, too.  I hope you frequent the one near where you live.  Libraries are a national treasure.  Did you know our nation has one?  It’s called the Library of Congress.  It was started in 1800, but we almost lost it during the War of 1812, when the British burned it to the ground.  On January 30, 1815, Thomas Jefferson made available 6000 books from his personal library to restore it.  Today the Library of Congress boasts over 170 million books - housed in a structure called the Thomas Jefferson Building. You can visit it in Washington D.C., but unless you’re a high government official, you can’t check anything out.  Maybe President Trump would let you use his library card.

Many Americans love books.  And we love collecting books.  I have about a thousand at my house (I’m no Thomas Jefferson!).  I know that you, at the very least, have 66 in your home.  The first one’s called “Genesis”, and the last one “Revelation”.  The Library of Congress has a Gutenberg Bible and the Jefferson Bible.  The British tried to destroy our national library, but it endures.  And so does the Word of God.

Isaiah 40:8 - “The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the Word of the Lord endures forever”.

Meet you back here tomorrow,

David
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