April 9
THE BIBLE'S SUPREME PLACE
"Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend
them" Ps. 119:165
Yes, a true love for the great Book will bring us great peace from
the great God, and be a great protection to us. Let us live constantly
in the society of the law of the Lord, and it will breed in our hearts
a restfulness such as nothing else can. The Holy Spirit acts as a
Comforter through the Word, and sheds abroad those benign influences
which calm the tempests of the soul.
Nothing is a stumblingblock to the man who has the Word of God
dwelling in him richly. He takes up his daily cross and it becomes a
delight. For the fiery trial he is prepared, and counts it not
strange, so as to be utterly cast down by it. He is neither stumbled
by prosperity, as so many are, nor crushed by adversity, as others
have been; for he lives beyond the changing circumstances of external
life. When his Lord puts before him some great mystery of the faith
which makes others cry, "This is an hard saying; who can hear it?" the
believer accepts it without question; for his intellectual
difficulties are overcome by his reverent awe of the law of the Lord,
which is to him the supreme authority to which he joyfully bows. Lord,
work in us this love, this peace, this rest, this day.