The Value of Reading the Bible for Yourself
Here are some quotes to ponder about the importance of God's Word in our lives:
"The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. I solemnly state this from the experience of fifty-four years. The first three years after conversion I neglected the Word of God. Since I began to search it diligently the blessing has been wonderful. I have read the Bible through one hundred times, and always with increasing delight. Each time it seems like a new book to me. Great has been the blessing form consecutive, diligent, daily study. I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God."
"I believe that the one chief reason that I have been kept in happy useful service is that I have been a lover of Holy Scripture. It has been my habit to read the Bible through four times a year; in a prayerful spirit, to apply it to my heart, and practice what I find there. I have been for sixty-nine years a happy man; happy, happy, happy."
George Mueller
1 comment:
WOW! he's read the Bible a 100 times all the way through! I think I've read the whole thing like once...or something like that. And when he said that it feels like a wasted day when he didn't get in a good time with the Lord, I cain't remember how many times I've not gotten a good time with God and it didn't change how I thought. It wouldn't even cross my mind that i had not had my time with God. I guess that's what happens when you get all wrapped up with life and you are not in the Bible like you should be.
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