Scriptural Health
2 Timothy 3:16 “For all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable…”
With all the Bible versions pouring off the presses, the newest technologies of e-Bibles and helps available, why is the 21st century Christian the most anemic of all its predecessors? We read every book that promises life and security. We bath ourselves with the newest trends and methodologies, but Satan has blinded the minds of the masses and has tamed our appetite for the Truth. George Muller of Bristol realized this and took steps to rectify his personal problem of scriptural blindness. The following excerpt is from his biography.
“One lesson, yet to be learned, was that the one fountain of all wisdom and strength is the Holy Scriptures … After a true relish for the Scriptures had been created, he could not understand how he could ever have treated God’s Book with such neglect. It seemed obvious that God having condescended to become an Author, inspiring holy men to write the Scriptures, He would in them impart the most vital truths; His message would cover all matters which concern man’s welfare, and therefore, under the double impulse of duty and delight, we should instinctively and habitually turn to the Bible. Moreover, as he read and studied this Book of God, he felt himself admitted to more and more intimate acquaintance with the Author. During the last twenty years of his life he read it carefully through, four or five times annually, with a growing sense of his own rapid increase in the knowledge of God thereby…
So soon as George Müller found this well-spring of delight and success, he drank habitually at this fountain of living waters. In later life he lamented that, owing to his early neglect of this source of divine wisdom and strength, he remained so long in spiritual infancy, with its ignorance and impotence. So long and so far as his growth in knowledge of God was thus arrested his growth in grace was likewise hindered. His close walk with God began at the point where he learned that such walk is always in the light of that inspired word which is divinely declared to be to the obedient soul “a lamp unto the feet and a light unto the path.” He who would keep up intimate converse with the Lord must habitually find in the Scriptures the highway of such companionship. God’s aristocracy, His nobility, the princes of His realm, are not the wise, mighty, and high-born of earth, but often the poor, weak, despised of men, who abide in His presence and devoutly commune with Him through His inspired word.
Blessed are they who have thus learned to use the key which gives free access, not only to the King’s Treasuries, but to the King Himself!”
May God’s children turn to His word and find nourishment for their soul.
R.C.
Pierson, A. T. (1899). George Müller of Bristol (49–51). London: James Nisbet & Co., Limited.
