Breath on a Page: The Most Precious Thing You Could Ever Hold in Your Hands

Scripture isn’t something we just read—it’s living and breathing, with the power to change and transform the lives of those who study it. Join Louie Giglio as he highlights how the Word is God-breathed, making it the most reputable and unique work in history.

Scripture is breath on a page, and it's unique—unlike any other work in history.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Scripture isn't just the product of a printing process; it's the exhale of the almighty God onto the pages we hold in our hands, giving us so that we can be equipped for every good work.

When Scripture moves us, it results in lives that reflect how Jesus lived in His days on earth.

1. Scripture is not a book—it's 66 books.

There are 40+ authors, and the works were written over 1500 years on three different continents in three different languages.

This text is written by poets, Jewish scholars, prophets, etc., yet the symmetry of the story and theme is astounding. There are over 63,000 cross-references in Scripture.

2. Scripture gives us eyewitness accounts of the acts of God throughout history.

Scripture is filled with people who are taking into account what they saw and heard.

Read 2 Peter 1:16-21.

In verse 16, Peter says, "We were witnesses." It's not just his own experience; it's his experience banded with the experiences of others.

Many saw the Red Sea part.

Many saw Jericho's walls fall.

Many saw David defeat Goliath.

3. Scripture is a living Word.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

God has assignments for this Word today. His Word moves, stores, upends, and heals because it's active.

4. Scripture has a clear and compelling central character.

It's all about someone. It's not about a set of rules, it's about a ruler. It's about what the central character (God) has done—a teacher who can give us life.

This Scripture is an introduction.

The Word of God is the person of Jesus.

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

John 5:39-40

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

Luke 24:25-27

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

John 1:1-3

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14

God translated Himself into humanity, becoming flesh. This isn't just ink on a page, it's breath on a page; it's a miracle.

5. Scripture fills our souls with spiritual oxygen in a suffocating world.

You can breathe underwater with the water of God.

No matter how far down you are, you can still breathe.

You would never go down 50 feet without an oxygen tank, and in the same way, we shouldn't be going a moment without the Word of God.

This is why the Word of God is unique—it sustains you.