Meditate, practice, pray. By Thomas Brooks. Joshua chapter 1, verse 8. This book of the law must not depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to obey everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do. You must meditate and dwell upon what you read, otherwise your labors will be lost.

The more any man contemplates the scriptures, the more deep and firm impression is made upon his heart by those truths. Heavenly meditation brings out the sweetness in divine truths. Not those who get most, but those who keep most are the richest. Just so, not those who hear most or read most, but those who meditate most are the most edified and enriched.

You must also practice and live out what you read. To read much and practice nothing is to hunt much and catch nothing. Ah, what cause have most to sigh that they have heard so much, and read so much, and yet done so little? You must also pray over what you read. Many read much and pray little, and therefore get little by all they read.

Galen writes of a fish called Uranoscopos that has but one eye, which continually looks up to the heavens. Just so, whenever a Christian has one eye upon his Bible, the other eye should be looking up to heaven for a blessing upon what he reads. Oh, how I love your law. It is my meditation all the day. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight. O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.