Food for My Soul

[Thompson, Darryl]

Food for My Soul 

     Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me
the joy and rejoicing of mine heart. Jer. 15:16  

     It is impossible for any human mind to exhaust one truth or promise
of the Bible. One catches the glory from one point of view, another from
another point; yet we can discern only gleamings. The full radiance is
beyond our vision. As we contemplate the great things of God's Word, we
look into a fountain that broadens and deepens beneath our gaze. Its
breadth and depth pass our knowledge. As we gaze, the vision widens;
stretched out before us, we behold a boundless, shoreless sea. Such
study has vivifying power. The mind and heart acquire new strength, new
life.  

     This experience is the highest evidence of the divine authorship of
the Bible. We receive God's Word as food for the soul through the same
evidence by which we receive bread as food for the body. Bread supplies
the need of our nature; we know by experience that it produces blood,
bone, and brain. Apply the same test to the Bible; when its principles
have actually become the elements of character, what has been the
result? what changes have been made in the life?--"Old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new." In its power men and women
have broken the chains of sinful habit. They have renounced selfishness.
The profane have become reverent, the drunken sober, the profligate
pure. Souls that have borne the likeness of Satan have been transformed
into the image of God. The change is itself the miracle of miracles. A
change wrought by the Word, it is one of the deepest mysteries of the
Word. We cannot understand it; we can only believe, that, as declared by
the Scriptures, it is "Christ in you, the hope of glory." A knowledge of
this mystery furnishes a key to every other. It opens to the soul the
treasures of the universe, the possibilities of infinite development. 

>From My Life Today - Page 26