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The Word Our Spiritual Food, April 2
He that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall
never thirst.
John 6:35
.
There are many in this age of the world who act as if they were at liberty to
question the words of the Infinite, to review His decisions and statutes, endorsing,
revising, reshaping, and annulling at their pleasure. We are never safe while we are
guided by human opinions, but we are safe when we are guided by a “Thus saith
the Lord.” We cannot trust the salvation of our souls to any lower standard than the
decisions of an infallible Judge.
Those who make God their guide and His Word their counselor behold the lamp
of life. God’s living oracles guide their feet in straight paths. Those who are thus
led do not dare to judge the Word of God, but ever hold that His Word judges them.
They get their faith and religion from the Word of the living God. It is the guide and
counselor that direct their path. The Word is indeed a light to their feet and a lamp
to their path. They walk under the direction of the Father of light, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow or turning. He whose tender mercies are over all His
works makes the path of the just as a shining light, which shineth more and more
unto the perfect day.
The Word of God is to be our spiritual food. “I am the bread of life,” Christ said;
“he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.” The world is perishing for pure, unadulterated truth. Christ is the truth. His
words are truth, and they have a greater value and a deeper significance than appears
on the surface.... Minds that are quickened by the Holy Spirit will discern the value
of these sayings....
By his conscience every honest Jew was convinced that Jesus Christ was the
Son of God, but the heart, in its pride and ambition, would not surrender. When the
truth is held as the truth only by the conscience, when the heart is not stimulated and
made receptive, the mind only is affected. But when the truth is received as truth by
the heart, it has passed through the conscience, and captivated the soul by its pure
principles. It is placed in the heart by the Holy Spirit, who reveals its beauty to the
mind, that its transforming power may be seen in the character....
True religion is embodied in the Word of God, and consists in being under the
guidance of the Holy One in thought, word, and deed. He who is the Way, the
Truth, and the Life takes the humble, earnest, wholehearted seeker, and says, Follow
Me. He leads him the narrow way to holiness and heaven.... And all who decide to
follow the Lord fully will be led in the royal path (
The Review and Herald, March
29, 1906
).
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