The First Great And Primary

If Honest Of Heart And Uprightness Before God Were Lacking Or If I Did Not Patiently Wait On God For Instruction, Or If I Preferred The Counsel Of My Fellow-men To The Declarations Of The Word Of God, I Made Great Mistakes.

It Often Astonishes Me That I Did Not See The Importance Of Meditation Upon Scripture Earlier In My Christian Life. As The Outward Man Is Not Fit For Work For Any Length Of Time Unless He Eats, So It Is With The Inner Man. What Is The Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God -not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Runs Through A Pipe. No, We Must Consider What We Read, Ponder Over It, And Apply It To Our Hearts.

The Spirit And The Word Must Be Combined. If I Look To The Spirit Alone Without The Word, I Lay Myself Open To Great Delusions Also. If The Holy Ghost Guides Us At All, He Will Do It According To The Scriptures And Never Contrary To Them.

I Saw More Clearly Than Ever, That The First Great And Primary Business To Which I Ought To Attend Every Day Was, To Have My Soul Happy In The Lord. The First Thing To Be Concerned About Was Not, How Much I Might Serve The Lord, How I Might Glorify The Lord; But How I Might Get My Soul Into A Happy State, And How My Inner Man May Be Nourished...i Saw That The Most Important Thing I Had To Do Was To Give Myself To The Reading Of The Word Of God And To Meditation On It.

The Beginning Of Anxiety Is The End Of Faith, And The Beginning Of True Faith Is The End Of Anxiety.