"Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your word was to me the joy
and rejoicing of my heart!" Jeremiah 15:16
Oh, that you and I might get
into the very heart of the Word of God--and get that Word into ourselves!
As I have seen the silkworm eat into the leaf, and consume it--so ought
we to do with the Word of the Lord--not crawl over its surface, but eat
right into it until we have taken it into our inmost parts! It is idle merely to
let the eye glance over the words, or to recollect the poetic expressions, or
the historic facts; but it is blessed to eat into the
very soul of the Bible until,
at last . . .
you come to talk in
Scriptural language,
your very life is fashioned upon Scripture
models, and,
what is better still, your mind is flavored with the
words of the Lord.
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceeds from the mouth of God!" Matthew 4:4
~Charles Spurgeon
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