The Most Important Book

 

 

If I were to ask you

What’s the most important book,

Your answer would depend

On your personal outlook.

 

But the most important book

Is not a book at all,

For though referred to as a book,

It is really a record.

 

Maybe I have lost you

On account of not making sense

But I assure you it’s not foolishness

And I mean no offense.

 

Highest on most people’s list

May be the Holy Bible

And I would be inclined to agree

The Bible is not trivial.

 

It is of colossal importance

And should never be ignored

But there’s one of greater importance

Even when life here is o’er.

 

 

The Bible speaks of it

In the book of Revelation

And in this book alone you will find it

On seven occasions.

 

One other place you’ll find

This most important book,

You can go to Philippians chapter 4

And there have a look.

 

I know you’d want me to give

Not only the chapter but the verse

So, let me point you to verse 3

To satisfy your thirst.

 

With that you can check out

The instances in Revelation

Bearing in mind, as I said previously,

There are seven occasions.

 

A daily report is being made

By the God that knows it all,

Don’t expect a book of gigantic size

But an invisible mental record.

 

Of every deed done in the body

Whether it be bad or good

And while none can achieve this task,

God most certainly could. 

 

 

He does not need a computer

Or a gigantic notepad

But He remembers every single deed

Whether it be good or bad.

 

And the books were opened

And then another book

And the dead were judged of those things

That were written in the books.

 

And whoever was not found

Written in the Lamb’s book of life

Was cast in to the fiery lake

Of torment and strife.

 

That Lamb’s book of life

Is the most important book,

For all who’ve ignored it, I adjure you

To take another look.

 

 

Is your name written there?

Inquires a wonderful hymn,

Only the names of the born again

Are entered therein.

 

Stewart Russell © June 3, 2025