p. 386 | Daily Bible Study

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 25.

Daily Bible Study

EVERY child of God should make the Scriptures of truth a daily study. God gives us natural or physical food and spiritual food. If we deprive ourselves of the natural food, our bodies will become dwarfed and weakly. In the same way will we become spiritually dwarfed and weakened if we neglect to partake daily of the spiritual sustenance God has provided for us. We should study the Bible systematically. If we cannot devote more time than ten or twenty minutes each day to its perusal, it will liberally reward us for the effort. Those who plead a lack of time for study of the word are often found spending hours in that which is of no help, but positively injurious, such as reading stories and novels, foolish jesting, etc. The Bible should be studied by course, reading it through carefully book by book. This will give a knowledge of its history and the order of events it records. It should be studied topically, taking up some subject and tracing it through the writings of the various prophets. Every truth of the Bible is a perfect chain, but all of the links of that chain are not in any one book. We find a link here, and another one somewhere else. Let us collect them all, unite them in their natural order, and we have a chain so perfect and symmetrical, so strong and durable, that the fiercest assaults of the enemy cannot break its unity. Above all let us study the Bible prayerfully, asking God for the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, so that it may become indeed our spiritual meat and drink.