God’s word is full of hidden treasures. Deep and wonderful things are to be found there, and, “In keeping of them there is great reward.” Blessed is the man who finds delight in the law of the Lord.
It was the man after God’s own heart who uttered these words, “O bow love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” What made the word of God so dear to Israel’s sweet Psalmist, think you, my young reader? The secret, I doubt not, is in this—”it is my meditation all the day.”
Do you wish that God’s word was precious to you? Then meditate upon it, and your eyes will be opened to behold wondrous things out of God’s law. Meditate upon the written word, and meditate upon the living Word—Jesus—and your heart will be filled with joy and gladness. “My meditation of Him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the Lord.”
Our picture shows us one, who I think, loves God, and loves His word. He seems to be reading from his large, opened Bible, while before him sits an attentive, bright-faced little listener. The scene is rather a strange one— a blacksmith shop. On the stone floor lies a horse shoe, and on the rafter overhead, hang various pieces of iron waiting to be formed and welded. But the great hammer is at rest, and the anvil is serving as a stand to hold the big Bible. The dear old man can let his work stand for a little, while he searches for treasures which are of greater value than silver, or gold, or indeed than “all the things that could be desired.”
How far are we following his example? Are pleasures and cares so filling our time, that God’s word is shut out!
If this be so, we are losing more than all the treasures of this world heaped together; for their value is little, compared with the treasures which will come through the diligent study of God’s word.
ML 01/04/1903