In 2007, several Israeli scientists were able to inscribe the entire Hebrew Bible on a tiny silicon surface the measured approximately half the size of a grain of sugar. (For a picture of this Bible, you can click this link: Tiny Bible).

This Bible was created by blasting tiny particles called gallium ions which created an etching just like a hammer and chisel would. It’s mind-boggling to consider that 300,000 words can be etched on such a tiny spec.

While I am amazed by this copy of the Bible, I find myself amazed for all the wrong reasons. The Bible isn’t a novelty item. It’s value is not in being the largest, smallest, or most expensive. Rather, its value is in being read and put into practice.

While I marvel at the technology we possess to be able to etch the Bible on a tiny spec of silicon, I can’t help but ask, “What good does this Bible do anyone?”

Friends, if you’re like me, you’re “wowed” by this tiny Bible. But if you want to be really “wowed,” get your hands on a copy of the Bible, with print large enough to see, and begin reading.

Steve Higginbotham