Usually when I fly, I take a lot of study material with me to work on various lessons or projects. If I’m working on lessons, I will usually take pictures of the passage(s) in my wide-margin Bible, so that I have the notes from my Bible readily available on the flight. It is also extremely helpful, when I’m sitting on the plane, to be able to zoom in on the text in the picture, making it easier to read the very small (multi-colored) print that I have written in my margins and even between the lines of the printed Biblical text.
Earlier this year, a young lady next me was looking at my phone, as I zoomed in and out on the text and my notes. She couldn’t tell exactly what it was, but she commented, “That’s quite some source material that you’re reading.” I showed her that it was my Bible with handwritten notes around it…and she immediately shut down, turned away and stopped talking to me. That hurt. But what she said stuck me. The Bible is our “source material”! It is our source of truth (John 17:17), of life (Phil. 2:16), of all things that we need to serve God acceptably (2 Pet. 1:3).