2 Timothy 3:16 — All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

There’s a peculiar notion that the Bible is out of date … It’s a weird collection of old books written two thousand years ago and more, and it’s got nothing to say for today. Maybe the problem is with the “old fashioned” language of many well-loved translations.
As I read the daily readings in our devotions today, I was struck by just how “real” the Bible is. Look at these verses in the Song of Songs:

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. (Song of Solomon 3:1-4)

The bride is dreaming … Did you ever have one of those dreams where you tossed and turned, restless, and found yourself wandering, looking, going with increasing desperation from place to place …
Or how about this from Psalm 39:

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, (Psalm 39:1-3)

Were you ever in that situation where you were in a meeting with people who were more powerful than you? You knew they were wrong … But speaking up could only hurt you … And then, finally, you could be still no more?
The wisdom of the Bible doesn’t age. Did I convince you yet? How about James on how temptation works?

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James 1:13-15)

There is no twenty-first situation where the Bible has nothing to say. So if anyone tells you the Bible is out-of-date, trust yourself, and take them to the Word!