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Food for My Soul, January 22
The Bible in My Life
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto
me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.
Jeremiah 15:16
It is impossible for any human mind to exhaust one truth or promise
of the Bible. One catches the glory from one point of view, another from
another point; yet we can discern only gleamings. The full radiance is
beyond our vision. As we contemplate the great things of God’s Word,
we look into a fountain that broadens and deepens beneath our gaze. Its
breadth and depth pass our knowledge. As we gaze, the vision widens;
stretched out before us, we behold a boundless, shoreless sea. Such study
has vivifying power. The mind and heart acquire new strength, new life.
This experience is the highest evidence of the divine authorship of
the Bible. We receive God’s Word as food for the soul through the same
evidence by which we receive bread as food for the body. Bread supplies
the need of our nature; we know by experience that it produces blood,
bone, and brain. Apply the same test to the Bible; when its principles
have actually become the elements of character, what has been the result?
what changes have been made in the life?—“Old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new.” In its power men and women have
broken the chains of sinful habit. They have renounced selfishness. The
profane have become reverent, the drunken sober, the profligate pure.
Souls that have borne the likeness of Satan have been transformed into
the image of God. The change is itself the miracle of miracles. A change
wrought by the Word, it is one of the deepest mysteries of the Word.
We cannot understand it; we can only believe, that, as declared by the
Scriptures, it is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” A knowledge of this
mystery furnishes a key to every other. It opens to the soul the treasures
of the universe, the possibilities of infinite development.
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