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A Treasure in My Heart, January 24
The Bible in My Life
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words
in thine heart.
Job 22:22
It is of the greatest importance that you continually search the Scrip-
tures, storing the mind with the truths of God. You may be separated
from the companionship of Christians and placed where you will not
have the privilege of meeting with the children of God. You need the
treasures of God’s Word hidden in your heart.
All over the field of revelation are scattered grains of gold—the
sayings of the wisdom of God. If you are wise, you will gather up these
precious grains of truth. Make the promises of God your own. Then
when test and trial come, these promises will be to you glad springs of
heavenly comfort.
Temptations often appear irresistible because, through neglect of
prayer and the study of the Bible, the tempted one cannot readily re-
member God’s promises and meet Satan with the Scripture weapons.
But angels are round about those who are willing to be taught in divine
things; and in the time of great necessity they will bring to their remem-
brance the very truths which are needed. Thus “when the enemy shall
come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against
him.”
The heart that is stored with the precious truths of God’s Word is
fortified against the temptation of Satan, against impure thoughts and
unholy actions.
Keep close to the Scriptures. The more you search and explain the
Word, the more your mind and heart will be fortified with the blessed
words of encouragement and promise.
Let us commit its precious promises to memory, so that, when we
are deprived of our Bibles, we may still be in possession of the Word of
God.
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