Treasuring the Word in Your Heart by Charles Spurgeon Job chapter 23, verse 12 I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. The law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. If you wish to know God, then you must know His Word.

Some people read the Bible through in a year, but they read it as a duty, so it often does them little good. Better to read a short portion and meditate upon it until it enters into the heart. Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect prayer and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. Some like to read so many chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul to soak in half a dozen verses all day than I would, as it were, rinse my hand in several chapters.

Oh, to bathe in a text of scripture and to let it be sucked up into your very soul until it saturates your heart. The only way to know God's word thoroughly is to set your heart upon it. Let your whole nature be plunged into it as cloth into a dye. The Word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible. Meditation chews the cud and gets the sweetness and nutriment out of the Word. A man who merely reads the Word is like one who swallows his food without digesting it. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture. The book widens and deepens with our years. Oh, that we might get into the very heart of the Word of God and get that Word into our hearts. Receive instruction from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.