The New Life

God's Word in Our Heart.
love I Thy law: it is my meditation all the day."
Even if it appears difficult for you to understand the
word, read it only the more. The Father has promised
to make it a blessing in your heart. But you
must first take it into your heart. Believe then that
God will by the Holy Spirit make it living and powerful
in you.
O my Father, who hast said to me :
Me thine heart," I have given Thee mine heart.
Now that Thou chargest me to lay up and to keep
Thy word in that heart, I answer:
"My son, give
" I keep Thy commands
with my whole heart." Father, teach me
every day so to receive Thy word in my heart that it
can exercise there its blessed influence. Strengthen
me in the deep conviction that even though I do not
actually apprehend its meaning and power, I can still
reckon on Thee to make the word living and powerful
in me. Amen.
1. What is the difference between the reading of the word to
increase knowledge and the receiving of it in faith ?
2. The word is as a seed. Seed requires time ere it springs up.
During this time it must be kept silently and constantly in the
earth. I must not only read God's word, but ponder it and reflect
upon it : then shall it work in me. The word must be in
me the whole day, must abide in me, must dwell in me.
3. What are the reasons that the word of God sometimes has so
little power in those that read it and really long for blessing ? One
of the principal reasons is surely that they do not give the seed
time to grow, that they do not keep it and reflect upon it, in the
believing assurance that the word itself shall have its working.
4. What is the token of His disciples that Jesus mentions first
in the high-priestly prayer? (John xvii.)
5. What are the blessings of a heart filled with the word of God ?
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