Jodey Arrington: “I want to thank my colleague, Mr. Lamborn, my brother in Christ, and one of our spiritual leaders here in this great…”

“I want to thank my colleague, Mr. Lamborn, my brother in Christ, and one of our spiritual leaders here in this great Chamber. I so appreciate the gentleman leading this effort to pay tribute to God's holy, inherent, infallible, active Word, that Word that has created the heavens and the Earth. The Word that became flesh and dwelt among us in the person of Jesus, God's Son. This Word of God, this Bible that we speak of, I don't know that there is any book that has had a greater influence on the world. It is no accident that the words behind me above our Speaker and our Nation's motto are ``In God we trust.'' And as we trusted God, God blessed us. As I trust Him in my life, He blesses me. And when I depart as His child, as a follower of Jesus, and I say to Mr. Lamborn that I have to confess, I depart from time to time. And when I do, I don't have that peace that surpasses understanding, that hope and that joy unspeakable, but because of this great gift of the Bible, I cannot only know the will of God, the mind of God, the character of God, I can actually have a relationship with God. And that is mind-blowing. And the fact that I wouldn't run to the Bible every day first thing when I get up, and I wouldn't cling to it at night, every night, before I went to bed, is also mind-boggling, knowing the power and the richness, the depth of the wisdom of God in those Holy Scripture.…”