Ps. 119:11.
WHAT a safe hiding place this is, IN THE HEART. Have you little ones ever thought that there is something you can hide in your hearts? If you hide the word of God there, Satan will never be able to take it from you.
There was a time when people were punished severely if they were found with a Bible in their houses. They were put in prison, sometimes all their goods were taken from them, they were tortured in all kinds of ways, and some were even put to death. I once read a story of a dear Christian woman who lived in those days, and who would take every opportunity she had, when no one would see her, to commit to memory some verse of Scripture, and then she would teach it to her little girl. At last she was found out, and these wicked people came and made her give up her Bible that she so much loved, and they burned it before her eyes. Then they said, “What will you do now without your Bible?” Her reply was, “You can burn the word of God out of my hands but you cannot burn it out of my heart.” The word of God was hid in her heart and no enemy of God, or God’s truth could touch it there. She read it, she believed it, she enjoyed it, and in this way it had found a place in her heart.
The readers of this little paper live in a day when we are allowed to read the Bible as much as we like. We have no man who can come and take it from us and burn it before our eyes, but we have the same foe— Satan—who will do all he can to keep us from giving it a place in our hearts. He will try and get other things there so that the truth of God will be kept out.
If we read the Bible, and believe it, and obey it, we are hiding the word of God in our HEARTS. May all our dear readers do this so that they may not sin against God.
ML 08/03/1902