If the study of God's word just fills you with points and arguments and speeches and sermons and theories, you are not getting the benefit of it yourself, nor is God getting the results he wants. A sheep eats grass, and we do not expect him to produce the like in kind; we do not want grass to grow out of his back, but wool; or grass to accumulate under his skin, but fat and meat. So does God want his word to be transformed in the laboratory of our hearts, and come forth in the form of divine action and conduct of life. Then he is pleased, and then only has God's word become, indeed, meat and drink to us. (John 4:34.)

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