Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find
some word of consolation in Scripture. If you are in affliction, if you
are in adversity and trial, there is a promise for you. In joy and
sorrow, in health and in sickness, in poverty and in riches, in every
condition of life, God has a promise stored up in His Word for you. In
one way or another every case is met, and the truth is commended to
every man's conscience. It is said that Richard Baxter, author of "The
Saints' Everlasting Rest," felt the force of miracles chiefly in his
youth; in maturer years he was more impressed by fulfilled prophecy; and
towards the end of his life he felt the deepest satisfaction in his own
ripe experience of the power of the Gospel.
"If you are impatient, sit down quietly and commune with Job.
If you are strong-headed, read of Moses and Peter.
If you are weak-kneed, look at Elijah.
If there is no song in your heart, listen to David.
If you are a politician, read Daniel.
If you are getting sordid, read Isaiah.
If you are chilly, read of the beloved disciple.
If your faith is low, read Paul.
If you are getting lazy, watch James.
If you are losing sight of the future, read in Revelation of the
promised land."
"GREAT PEACE."
In Psalm 119:165, we find these words: "Great peace have they which love
Thy law; and nothing shall offend them." The study of God's Word will
secure peace. Take those Christians who are rooted and grounded in the
Word of God, and you will find they have great peace; but those who
don't study their Bible, and don't know their Bible, are easily offended
when some little trouble comes, or some little persecution, and their
peace is all disturbed; just a little breath of opposition and their
peace is all gone.
Sometimes I am amazed to see how little it takes to drive all peace and
comfort from some people. A slandering tongue will readily blast it. But
if we have the peace of God, the world cannot take that from us. It
cannot give it; it cannot destroy it. We must get it from above the
world, it is the peace which Christ gives. "Great peace have they which
love Thy law, and nothing shall offend them." Christ says, "Blessed is
he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me." Now, you will notice that
where ever there is a Bible-taught Christian, one who has his Bible well
marked, and who daily feeds upon the Word with prayerful meditation, he
will not be easily offended.
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