Deeper Life #267

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

—Deuteronomy 11:18

IN DEALING WITH BIBLICAL FACTS, our aim is not just to produce “specialists,” but to make healthy, practical workers in the work of our Lord. Bible specialists have their counterpart in the natural world in scientists such as astronomers, biologists, geologists, and others. The research systems of these specialists are of the very greatest value to us. We will consult them from time to time; yet their findings have value only as they aid our daily experience. The same is true of the findings of our Bible specialists.

I believe it to be essential to be born of the Spirit of God before we can enter into Bible study. I believe that the only meaningful method of Bible study is to “prove all things” (1 Thessalonians 5:21), not by brain only, but by personal experience. That is the only way to understand spiritual matters.

Prayer Thought: Reading Your Word, O God, is a blessing.

SUGGESTED READING: Deuteronomy 11:16–23