Loving the Word of God

          "Certain insects assume the color of the leaves they feed upon;
     and they are but emblems of a great law of our being:  our minds
     take the hue of the subjects whereon they think.

          'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he' (Proverbs 23:7a).
     Readers of trash become trashy; lovers of skeptical books become
     skeptical; and students of the Bible, who are in real earnest, become
     biblical, and display the qualities of the Bible.

         If you read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the word of God, the
     qualities of that word will be displayed in you.  A man fed on Bibline
     is a man indeed.

         In the history of heroes, there are none who show so much moral
     muscle and spiritual sinew as those who make the word of God their
     necessary food."
                                                                 C.H. Spurgeon



         "If the Spirit of God is in you, He will make you love the Word of God,
     and if any of you imagine that the Spirit of God will lead you to dispense
     with the Bible, you are under the influence of another spirit which is not
     the Spirit of God at all!

          I trust that the Holy Spirit will endear to you every page of this Divine
     Record so that you will feed upon it, and afterwards, speak it out to others.
   
          I think it is well worthy of your constant remembrance that, even in
     death, our blessed Master showed the ruling passion of His spirit so that
     His last words were a quotation from Scripture (Psalm 22:1; Matt. 27:46)."
                                                                C.H. Spurgeon


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                                           "All Scripture is breathed out by God and
                                            profitable for teaching, for reproof, that the
                                            man of God may be competent, equipped
                                            for every good work."
                                                                            2 Timothy 3:16-17


                                          "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light
                                            to my path."
                                                                           Psalm 119:105


                                          "The unfolding of your words gives light;
                                            it imparts understanding to the simple."
                                                                           Psalm 19:130


                                          "This God -- his way is perfect;
                                            the word of the LORD proves true;
                                            he is a shield for all those who take
                                            refuge in him."
                                                                           2 Samuel 22:31


                                          "For the word of God is living and active,
                                           sharper than any two-edged sword,
                                           piercing to the division of soul and of
                                           spirit, of joints and of marrow, and
                                           discerning the thoughts and intentions
                                           of the heart."
                                                                          Hebrews 4:12