p. 329 | THE WORD OF GOD by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 21.

THE WORD OF GOD.

By Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

"THY words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." Jer. 15: 16. Every growing Christian is a ruminating animal; he chews Bible truths and nutritious sermons and wholesome books and other such provender, as the cow cheweth her cud. One strong Bible text lodged in the memory and turned over and over and well digested, will be a breakfast for your soul, and in the strength of it you may go through the whole day. A soldier is never in as good trim for battle as after a sound sleep and a square morning meal; it is not easy to fight or to march on an empty stomach. In like manner, every servant of Jesus Christ must recruit his or her spiritual strength by reading Christ's words, and thinking about them, by meditation, by prayer, and soul converse with God.

Martin Luther, in the thick of his campaigns with the pope and the devil, said that he could not get on without two good hours each day for his private devotions. I have always observed that the light readers and light thinkers make light Christians, and those who neglect their Bibles and their closets soon dwindle into dwarfs. Having no depth of root, their religion withers away.—Dr. T. L. Cuyler.