Gather your manna fresh every
morning by J.C. Ryle. Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.
Psalm 119 verse 97. The Bible in the pulpit must
never supersede the Bible at home. Let us read our Bibles
in private more and with more pains and diligence. There is
less private Bible reading than there was 50 years ago. I never
would have believed that so many men and women would have been
tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, some falling
into skepticism, some rushing into the wildest and narrowest
fanaticism, and some going over to the Roman church. With many,
there was a habit developed of lazy, superficial, and careless
reading of God's Word. Read the Bible daily. Make it
part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some
portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every
morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over
and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and
not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue,
let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace
and the Bible every day. Next to praying, there is nothing
so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading
this book, we may learn what to believe, what to be, what
to do, how to live with comfort. and how to die in peace. Happy
is that man who possesses a Bible. Happier still is he who reads
it. Happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys
it and makes it the rule of his faith and practice. all Scripture
is inspired by God, and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man
of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3.16-17