"The law of Thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver."

                            -Psalm 119:72

Though he was human, and thus made mistakes from time to time, it is obvious from verses like this that David had his priorities straight. Gold and silver are two of the most precious materials on earth, and yet he said they were nothing in comparison to the law of God. Despite the fact that all he had at this point was Genesis through Deuteronomy (and the psalms, of course), he valued those words more than many of us value the Bible in it's entirety today.  Verses such as John 3:16 and Revelation 21:4 had not even been penned yet, but yet he realized the importance of what he did have.

How many of us feel that way? What if somebody offered you $100 to tear out those first few hundred pages of your Bible? What about $10,000? $1 million? I know that I would not accept any amount of money to abstain from eating for the rest of my life, but didn't Job say that he esteemed the Words of God to be more necessary than food? (Job 23:12) The Bible, from cover to cover, is inspired by God, and nobody can put a price-tag on it.

Let us come to the place where it can be said of our generation, "...and the word of the LORD was precious in those days;" (I Samuel 3:1)