VERBAL INSPIRATION

VERBAL INSPIRATION

It is very encouraging to me the way scripture opens to one when the heart is set upon it; I mean that when near the Lord one gets the mind of the Lord of which the words are the exponents. One values the words and studies them in proportion as the mind which uses them is valued. Even naturally it is the mind of one in whom we are interested that we like to reach, and how much more do we when in the Spirit seek the mind of God from the words used, for in scripture no other words would do, our Lord uses the very words which would alone convey His mind. We often use words which do not truly convey our minds.... What a homily I have written you as a note on the blessed fact of verbal inspiration. It is so assuring to feel and know that no other word used but the one used by the Spirit could fully or truly convey to us the mind of God, and yet the mind behind the word is what we reach through the word.... It is a great comfort to me to feel that the path of faith is not explained to the natural mind however one may be assured of it, but there is in us a constant tendency to try and prove to the natural mind that the path which faith leads us into, and ably keeps us in, is the wisest, in order to get nature’s approval of it.