Searching the Word of God.
By I. E. L.
1. What does Jesus say we should search? 'Search the Scriptures.' John 5:39, first part. 2. What reason does He give for this search? 'They are they which testify of Me.' John 5:39, last part. 3. How may we find the knowledge of God? 'If thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.' Prov. 2:3-5. 4. What worthy example is given us? 'They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.' Acts 17:11. 'Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.' Acts 17:12. 6. Of how great importance did Job consider the words of God? 'I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.' Job. 23:12. 7. Why did the Lord humble the children of Israel in the wilderness, suffering them to hunger and then feeding them with manna? 'That He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.' Deut. 8:3. 8. In whom are we to trust for an understanding? 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart.' Prov. 3:5, first part. 9. May we not depend upon our own understanding? 'Lean not unto thine own understanding.' Prov. 3:5, last part. 'If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.' 1 Cor. 8:2. 11. Can the natural man understand the things of God? 'The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.' 1 Cor. 2:14. 12. What then shall we do? 'If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.' James 1:5.