Growing in Christian Life Through God’s Word

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 20.

Growing in Christian Life Through God’s Word

THE only real growth in Christian life comes by appropriating God’s word. The Christian is begotten through the word of God (1 Peter 1:23; James 1:18), born of the water and the Spirit (John 3:5); and it is by the word of God that he grows up into Christ, the Incarnate Word (1 Peter 2:1-5). He must not only read the Word, or understand the Word, but he must appropriate or engraft the Word (James 1:21), till the truth of God becomes a very part of his being. It is this that the psalmist means when he says, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee.” Ps. 119:11.