Let us ask ourselves, "What has my mind been occupied with today?" "What has it been running after?" Could you say, "The Word of Christ has dwelt in me richly"? Perhaps we have been occupied with the news of the world, perhaps with the town talk, or with something of our own. Has the word of our own heart, the work of our own mind, filled up the greater part of our day? That is not Christ.

There is nothing more dangerous than the handling of the Word apart from the Spirit. I know of nothing that more separates from God than truth spoken out of communion with God; there is uncommon danger in it. God reveals not His things "to the wise and prudent, but unto babes." It is not man's mind judging about "the things of God" that gets the blessing from Him; it is the spirit of the babe desiring "the sincere milk of the Word." The strongest mind must come to the Word of God as the newborn babe.

There is not one word in the Bible which cannot feed our souls. Study the Bible with prayer. Seek the Lord there, not knowledge. That will come too, but the heart is well directed in seeking the Lord.

It is the teaching of God, and not the labor of man, that makes us enter into the thoughts and the purposes of God in the Bible. The Bible should be read with God. There is one Man who knows the truth, because He is the Truth. There is no craft of Satan that God's Word is not sufficient to meet. When this fleeting life shall be over, only that which has been produced by the Word shall abide.

—J.N. Darby