Have you ever thought much of the exercise of meditation, and how frequently it is spoken of in
Scripture?

Perhaps it may be from want of this holy exercise, and really comprehending it, that the church
of the living God is wanting in unity of doctrine, and in spirituality of mind.

The study of God’s Word may be concentrated, deep, constant, like searching for a vein of gold;
and memory may marvelously retain and bring forth what study has discovered. But meditation
is not the discovery of more or new things, but a calm sitting down with God to enrich itself with
what study has discovered, and feeding with Him upon the stores which memory has laid up.

Study and memory make the ready and admired speaker; meditation, the sweet, living exhibition
of Jesus everywhere, whether speaking or silent (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 104:34; 119:15). Truths from
an infinite, all-wise God_they have in them more than the best meditative faculty has ever or can
ever digest.

May the Lord unfold to thee and me some of His own rich stores. They are so deep! But I am only
at the surface of them. They are "our inheritance:it shall be forever."