In all our study and gathering of stores of spiritual knowledge, we must see to it that we do not neglect food for the heart. The mind may become very familiar with all the great doctrines and facts of Scripture, and yet the heart be practically starving.

Now heart-food is not a new kind of food, but rather the same truths with which we are familiar, permeated by a sense of the love of God and of Christ. Doctrine is not mere theology, which is philosophy applied to revealed truth, but it is that truth revealing a Person, and that Person filled with love to us. Thus the apostle speaks of "the breadth and length," etc. of God's wondrous purposes and counsels for us in and with Christ; but he breaks off to sum it all up—"to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge." Let us then see to it that we are not merely "clear" as to truth, but that our hearts are like "a watered garden."