The New Life

God's Word in Our Heart.
There it is kept by memory and reflection.^ Still it
is not yet properly in ^he heart. From the court
there is an entrance into the innermost sanctuary;
the entrance of the door is faith. "What I believe
that I receive into my heart ^ Here it then becomes
held fast in love and in the surrender of the will.
Where this takes place, there the heart becomes the
sanctuary of God. His law is there, as in the ark,
and the soul cries out: "Thy law is within my
heart."'
Young Christian, God has asked your heart, your
love, your whole self. You have given yourself to
Him. He has received you, and would have you and
your heart entirely for Himself. He will make that
heart full of His word. What is in the heart one
holds dear, becaus*^ one thinks continually on that
which gives joy. God would have the word in the
heart. Where His word is, there is He Himself and
His might. He considers Himself bound to fulfil
His word ; when you have the word, you have God
Himself to work in you.* He wills that you should
receive and lay up His words in your heart : then
will He greatly bless you.^
How I wish that I could bring all young Christians
to receive simply that word of their Father, " Lay up
My words in your heart," and to give their whole
1 Ps. cxix. 15, 16.
2 John V. 38 ; Acts viii. 37 ; Rom. x. 10, 17.
'^x. XXV. 16 ; Ps. xxxvii. 31, xl. 9 ; Col. iii. 16.
< Gen. xxi. i ;
Josh, xxiii. 14.
6 Deut. xi. 10, xxviii. 1, 2 ; Ps. i. 2, 3, cxix. 14, 45, 98, 165 ; John
xvii. 6, 8, 17.
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