l we can from GOD;
but should much more earnestly desire to know what he wants us to be
and to do for Him. It is recorded of Ezra, that he prepared his heart
to seek the Law of the LORD, in order that he might do it, and teach
in Israel the statutes and judgments. The result was that the hand of
his GOD was upon him for good, the desires of his heart were largely
granted, and he became the channel of blessing to his whole people.
Every one who searches the Scriptures in the same spirit will receive
and communicate the blessing of GOD: he will find in it the guidance
he needs for his own service, and oft-times a word in season for
those with whom he is associated.

But not only will the Bible become the Law of the LORD to him as
teaching and illustrating what GOD would have him to be and to do,
but still more as revealing what GOD Himself is and does. As the law
of gravitation gives us to know how a power, on which we may ever
depend, will act under given circumstances, so the Law of the LORD
gives us to know Him, and the principles of His government, on which
we may rely with implicit confidence.

The man of GOD will also delight to trace GOD in the Word as the
great Worker, and rejoice in the privilege of being a fellow-worker
with Him--a glad, voluntary agent in doing the will of GOD, yet
rejoicing in the grace that has made him willing, and in the mighty,
divine power that works through him. The Bible will also teach him to
view himself as but an atom, as it were, in GOD'S great universe; and
to see GOD'S great work as a magnificent whole, carried on by ten
thousand agencies; carried on through all spheres, in all time, and
without possibility of ultimate failure--a glorious manifestation of
the perfections of the great Worker! He himself, and a thousand more
of his fellow-servants, may pass away; but this thought will not
paralyse his efforts, for he knows that whatever has been wrought in
GOD will abide, and that whatever is incomplete when his work is done
the great Worker will in His own time and way bring to completion.

He does not expect to understand all about the grand work in which he
is privileged to take a blessed but infinitesimal part; he can afford
to await its completion, and can already by faith rejoice in the
certainty that the whole will be found in every respect worthy of the
great Designer and Executor. Well may his delight be in the Law of
the LORD, and well may he meditate in it day and nigh