Christian reader, see that you make your own of all these things. Seek to live nearer to God in your daily walk. Lean more upon Him. Use Him more. Go to Him in all your need, and you will never have to tell your need to a poor fellow-mortal. "My God shall supply _all_ your need, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." What a source--"God"! What a standard--"His riches in glory"! What a channel--"Christ Jesus"! It is your sweet privilege to place all _your need_ over against _His riches_, and lose sight of the former in the presence of the latter. His exhaustless treasury is thrown open to you, in all the love of His heart; go and draw upon it, in the artless simplicity of faith, and you will never have occasion to look to a creature-stream or lean on a creature-prop. CHAPTER V. "And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, 'Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them.'" Let us carefully note these four words, so specially characteristic of the book of Deuteronomy, and so seasonable for the Lord's people at all times and in all places: "_Hear_," "_Learn_," "_Keep_," "_Do_." These are words of unspeakable preciousness to every truly pious soul--to every one who honestly desires to walk in that narrow path of practical righteousness so pleasing to God, and so safe and so happy for us. The first of these words places the soul in the most blessed attitude in which any one can be found, namely, that of _hearing_. "Faith cometh by _hearing_, and hearing by the Word of God." "I will _hear_ what God the Lord will speak." "_Hear_, and your soul shall live." The hearing ear lies at the very foundation of all true, practical Christian life. It places the soul in the only true and proper attitude for the creature. It is the real secret of all peace and blessedness. It can scarcely be needful to remind the reader that when we speak of the soul in the attitude of hearing, it is assumed that what is heard is simply the Word of God. Israel had to hearken to "the statutes and judgments" of Jehovah, and to nothing else. It was not to the commandments, traditions, and doctrines of men they were to give ear, but to the very words of the living God, who had redeemed and delivered them from the land of Egypt--the place of bondage, darkness, and death.