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April.29.05: Light for the Day - "Read It Some More"

-- Psalms 119:105 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

-- 2 Peter 1:2-11
May God bless you with His special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better.

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"Read It Some More"

After passing through a period of skepticism, R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) yielded to Christ and studied in Germany. He was chosen in 1889 by D. L. Moody to oversee the fledgling Moody Bible Institute, and he also served as pastor of Moody Memorial Church. Between 1902 and 1906, he traveled around the world conducting evangelistic crusades with Charles M. Alexander, and from 1912 until 1924 he served as dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola)—all of this while speaking widely at Bible conferences and writing forty books.

His energy came from pouring himself into the Scripture.

Once a man approached him, a Dr. Congdon, complaining that he could get nothing out of his Bible study. The Scripture seemed to be dry as dust. “Please tell me how to study it so that it will mean something to me.”

“Read it,” replied Dr. Torrey.
“I do read it.”
“Read it some more.”
“How?”
“Take some book and read it twelve times a day for a month.”
“What book could I read that many times a day, working as many hours as I do?”
“Try ‘Second Peter,’ ” replied Torrey.

The man later said, “My wife and I read ‘Second Peter’ three or four times in the morning, two or three times at noon, and two or three times at dinner. Soon I was talking ‘Second Peter’ to everyone one I met. It seemed as though the stars in the heavens were singing the story of ‘Second Peter.’ I read ‘Second Peter’ on my knees, marking passages. Teardrops mingled with the crayon colors, and I said to my wife, “See how I have ruined this part of my Bible.”

“Yes,” she said, “but as the pages have been getting black, your life has been getting white.”

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-- 2 Peter 1:2-11
2 May God bless you with His special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better.
3 As we know Jesus better, His divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive His own glory and goodness!
4 And by that same mighty power, He has given us all of His rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in His divine nature.

5 So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.
6 Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness.
7 Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.
8 The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.
10 So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never stumble or fall away.
11 And God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

-- 2 Peter 1:19
And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

-- 1 John 5:20 
And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we are in God because we are in His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and He is eternal life.

-- 1 John 5:21 
Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.

-- Psalms 119:9-11
9  How can a young man keep his way pure? 
By living according to Your word.
10 I seek You with all my heart; 
do not let me stray from Your commands.
11 I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

-- Psalms 18:28 
You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; 
my God turns my darkness into light.