p. 341 | STUDY OF GOD'S WORD by Frank Thorp

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 3, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 22.

STUDY OF GOD'S WORD.

By Frank Thorp

BY FRANK THORP.

"Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things." 2 Tim. 2:7.

THIS is what God says to every seeker after light. There is eternal profit to him who considers what God says. Careful and deliberate examination, meditation, and reflection are all included in that word "consider." "Consider what I say." His word constitutes his sayings; but his word "is truth," and there is only one way to understand it, i. e., through the "Spirit of truth," which guides into all truth.

Furthermore, it is the understanding of what he says that the Lord is talking about in the text, "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things." Then if we consider his sayings in his appointed way, he will teach us their meaning, and none can hinder. We need not go to others to find out the meaning of the truth; for, if we will let him, he will teach us as individuals. Notice, that he will give understanding in all things, and will guide into all truth; not all at once, of course, for a guide implies a journey which must be taken one step at a time. Again, if a person requires a guide while journeying, it shows he does not know the way, hence, to be safe, must rely wholly upon the guide. So, in seeking for the meaning of God's word, we must depend entirely upon the Guide, the Holy Spirit, which can be had for the asking.

The study of God's word will not be distasteful to him who searches its pages in the divinely appointed way, and for the one purpose of learning the "truth as it is in Jesus." In the word are treasures of wisdom, stores of knowledge, unsearchable riches. But the Spirit "searcheth the deep things of God."