The New Life

Searching the Scriptures.
spiritual things.^ Deny your understanding, and
wait in humility on the Spirit of God. On every
occasion, still keep silent amidst your reading of the
word, and say to yourselves : this word I now receive
in my heart, to love and to let it live in me.^
Read the word always in fellowship with the living
God. The power of a wor 1 depends on my conviction
regarding the man from whom it comes.
First set yourself in loving fellowship with the living
God under the impression of His nearness and love :
d^al vdth the word under the full conviction that He,
the eternal God, is speaking wi h you; and let the
heart be silent to listen to God, to God Himself.^
Then the word certainly becomes to you a great
blessing.
Read the word, as a living word in which the
Spirit of God dwells, and that certainly works in
those that believe. The word is seed. Seed has life,
and grows and yields fruit of itself. The word has
life, and of itself grows and yields fruit.'' If you do
not wholly understand it, if you do not feel its power,
carry it in your heart ;
ponder it and meditate upon
it : it will of itself begin to yield a working and
growth in you.^ The Spirit of God is with, and in
the word.
Read it with the resolve to be, not only a hearer^
but a doer of the word. Let the great question be :
1 I Cor i. 19, 27, ii. 6, 12 ;
Col. ii. 18.
2Ps. cxix. 10, II, 47 Rom. x. 8 ; ;
Jas. i. 21.
3 Gen xvii. 3
; i Sam. iii. 9 10; Isa. i. 4, Hi. 6; Jer. i.z.
*-Mark iv. 27, 28 ;
John vi. 63 i Thess. ii. ; 13 ; 1 Pet. i. 23.
6Ps. cxix. 18, 40, 48, 69 ; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17.
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