The Lord Jesus, Everything. In Himself Worse

It Often Astonishes Me That I Did Not See The Importance Of Meditation Upon Scripture Earlier In My Christian Life. As The Outward Man Is Not Fit For Work For Any Length Of Time Unless He Eats, So It Is With The Inner Man. What Is The Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God -not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Runs Through A Pipe. No, We Must Consider What We Read, Ponder Over It, And Apply It To Our Hearts.

If We Hold Fast Our Confidence In Him, But Our Faith Is Also, By The Exercise, Strengthened: And So It Comes, That, If We Walk With God In Any Measure Of Uprightness Of Heart, The Trials Of Faith Will Be Greater And Greater.

Often The Work Of The Lord Itself May Be A Temptation To Keep Us From That Communion With Him Which Is So Essential To The Benefit Of Our Own Souls.

Christians Do Not Practically Remember That While We Are Saved By Grace, Altogether By Grace, So That In The Matter Of Salvation Works Are Altogether Excluded; Yet That So Far As The Rewards Of Grace Are Concerned, In The World To Come, There Is An Intimate Connection Between The Life Of The Christian Here And The Enjoyment And The Glory In The Day Of Christ's Appearing.

It Is True That The Faith, Which I Am Enabled To Exercise, Is Altogether God's Own Gift; It Is True That He Alone Supports It, And That He Alone Can Increase It; It Is True That, Moment By Moment, I Depend Upon Him For It, And That, If I Were Only One Moment Left To Myself, My Faith Would Utterly Fail.