Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life (John 5:24).
While in Cairo, William Jennings Bryan obtained a few grains of wheat that had slumbered for more than 30 centuries in an Egyptian tomb. He says: "As I looked at them, this thought came to my mind: If one of those grains had been planted on the banks of the Nile the year after it grew, and all of its lineal descendants had been planted and replanted from that time until now, its progeny would today be sufficiently numerous to feed the teeming millions of the world. An unbroken chain of life connects the earliest grains of wheat with the grains we now sow and reap." This illustrates the Word of God revealed in Christ.
"The word of God is the seed. Every seed has in itself a germinating principle. In it the life of the plant is enfolded. So there is life in God's word. Christ says, 'The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.' John 6:63. 'He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life.' John 5:24. In every command and in every promise of the word of God is the power, the very life of God, by which the command may be fulfilled and the promise realized. He who by faith receives the word is receiving the very life and character of God" (Christ's Object Lessons, p. 38).
True belief is faith. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17). The Word of God received in the heart is faith. By His grace we have "passed from death unto life." This everlasting life is for us here and now by faith in His Word. Let us claim God's promise and enter into this experience.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope" (Ps. 119:116).
While in Cairo, William Jennings Bryan obtained a few grains of wheat that had slumbered for more than 30 centuries in an Egyptian tomb. He says: "As I looked at them, this thought came to my mind: If one of those grains had been planted on the banks of the Nile the year after it grew, and all of its lineal descendants had been planted and replanted from that time until now, its progeny would today be sufficiently numerous to feed the teeming millions of the world. An unbroken chain of life connects the earliest grains of wheat with the grains we now sow and reap." This illustrates the Word of God revealed in Christ.
"The word of God is the seed. Every seed has in itself a germinating principle. In it the life of the plant is enfolded. So there is life in God's word. Christ says, 'The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.' John 6:63. 'He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life.' John 5:24. In every command and in every promise of the word of God is the power, the very life of God, by which the command may be fulfilled and the promise realized. He who by faith receives the word is receiving the very life and character of God" (Christ's Object Lessons, p. 38).
True belief is faith. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17). The Word of God received in the heart is faith. By His grace we have "passed from death unto life." This everlasting life is for us here and now by faith in His Word. Let us claim God's promise and enter into this experience.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope" (Ps. 119:116).
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