Feeding upon the word of God continually does not mean a continual reading of the word, a cramming of the mind and memory with its facts. The healthy man with a competence in a land of plenty feeds continually on food suitable to him; but that does not mean that he is continually eating. He sits at the table but two or three times a day. He eats slowly and sufficiently. He masticates the food thoroughly. He allows time for the digestion, assimilation, and absorption of the food. Each of these processes is as important as that of the eating. It is so with our spiritual food. We should read and study the word of God, slowly, thoroughly, weighing well each word. Then comes meditation upon the word, applying its principles to the acts of our lives, making it a very part of ourselves, even as the material food becomes a part of our bodies. So shall we become like God, on whose word and life we feed. Evolution versus Creation
He who accepts and holds to the theory of evolution as regards the existence of the earth, who holds that the earth was not created by the fiat of God, but that through inherent energy it evolved from state to state till it reached its present condition,—he who holds to this, professed Christian though he may be, will logically and inevitably be led to reject regeneration, or the new birth through Christ Jesus. The pledge of Christ's power to save us is his power in creation. The same power that called cosmos from chaos and light from darkness changes the chaos of sin within the heart of man to the cosmos of righteousness, and chases away the darkness of carnality by the light of Jesus Christ. Regeneration is a recreation. Eph. 2:10; 2 Cor. 5:17; 4:6. But if it be evolution in the first case, is it not evolution in the second? Thus will the one error lead to the other. But the world could no more have evolved itself than the leopard can change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin or the sinner his heart and life. It is only the power of God which can bring suns and worlds into existence. It is the same power which recreates man and brings him into a new existence. The first is a pledge of the second. The rejection of the first leads to the inevitable rejection of the second. Jesus said, "If ye believe not his [Moses'] writings [the record of creation], how shall ye believe my words?"