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Study the Bible, Not About It

Much that is called Bible study is not Bible study at all. Satan kept men for years from any interest in Bible study, but now that there is a great and growing interest in it he keeps them from real Bible study. Questions about the authorship, date, etc., of the various books of the Bible are both interesting and important; but studying these things is not studying the Bible. Mr. Moody once asked a recent graduate of a great university why he did not give his life to teaching the English Bible. The young man replied, “I don’t know anything about the Bible.” “Why,” Mr. Moody said, “you have a high priced professor employed in your university just to teach the English Bible.” The young man said, “Mr. Moody, would you like to know how we study the Bible? We have spent the last six months trying to find out who wrote the Pentateuch, and we know less about it now than when we began.” That was not Bible study.

—R. A. Torrey

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Quality over Quantity

“Blessed is the man … his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”—Psalm 1:1, 2

At one time I would read so many chapters of the Bible a day, and if I did not get through my usual quantity, I thought I was getting cold and backsliding. But, mind you, if a man had asked me two hours afterwards what I had read, I could not tell him; I had nearly forgotten it all.

When I was a boy I used to hoe the garden of corn; and I would hoe it so badly, in order to get over so much ground, that at night I had to put a stick in the ground, so as to know next morning where I had left off.

That was somewhat the same manner as running through so many chapters every day. A man will say, “Honey, did I read that chapter?”

“Well,” she says, “I don’t remember.”

And neither of them can recollect. Perhaps he reads the same chapter over and over again; and they call that “studying the Bible.” I do not think there is a book in all the world we treat in that fashion.

Someone has well said, “If you have only three minutes a day to devote to Bible reading, devote one minute to reading, and two minutes to thinking about what you have read.”

The word “meditate” really means “to chew the cud.” And any who have watched the cow chew her cud understand what God means when He tells us to meditate upon His Word. It is to first take the Word, and then carefully mull it over in our minds until it reaches our hearts.