GOD's WORD
"Let
the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom."
-COLOSSIANS
3:16 [KJV]
This
surely means something more than merely reading the word in a
careless, formal manner. It is "to dwell in us," that is,
take up its firm and lasting abode in our heart, and that "richly;"
not poorly and niggardly, but copiously and abundantly, unfolding to
us and putting us into possession of the wealth of its treasures; and
that in "all wisdom," making us wise to salvation, opening
up to us the manifold wisdom of God, and how it displays itself in
the great mystery of godliness.
Now
we shall not attain to this rich and heavenly wisdom unless we search
and study the Scriptures with prayer and supplication to understand
what the Holy Ghost has revealed therein, and what He is pleased to
unfold there from of the will and way of God for our own personal
instruction and consolation.
We
very easily fall off from abiding in Christ; nor can we expect to
keep up sensible union and communion with the Lord Jesus if we
neglect those means of grace which the Holy Ghost has provided for
the sustentation of the life of God in the soul. When we get cold,
sluggish, and dead, to read the word of God is a task and a burden;
but not so, when the life of God is warm and gushing in the soul.
Then, to read His holy word with prayer and supplication, entering by
faith into its hidden treasures, and drinking into the mind of Christ
as revealed therein, is a blessed means of maintaining the life of
God in the heart, and keeping up union and communion with Christ.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
19th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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