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Mysteries of the Bible
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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 and 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 have passed
away; behold, all things have become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
. 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. This change
is itself the miracle of miracles. A change wrought by the Word is
one of the deepest mysteries of the Word. We cannot understand it;
we can only believe that it is, as declared by the Scriptures, “Christ
in you, the hope of glory.”
Colossians 1:27
.
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.
And this development is gained through the constant unfolding
of the character of God—the glory and the mystery of the written
Word. If it were possible for us to attain to a full understanding of
God and His Word, there would be for us no further discovery of
truth, no greater knowledge, no further development. God would
cease to be supreme, and human beings would cease to advance.
Thank God, it is not so. Since God is infinite, and in Him are all the
treasures of wisdom, we may through all eternity ever search, ever
learn, yet never exhaust the riches of His wisdom, His goodness, or
His power.
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