Thanks be to HIM ..Who Revealed HIS Word To Me, Who Opened My Eyes To See Wondrous Things Out Of HIS Law,

What unsearchable riches 
there are in this golden mine! 
(Letters of William Romaine, 1714-1795)

In books I converse with men; 
in the Bible I converse with GOD. 
The more I read, the more I long to read. 
The Scripture is always new, always 
instructing, always delightful.

The value of the Bible is inestimable. 
It is not only a perfect map of 
the spiritual world; but the believer 
surveying its riches and beauties and 
pleasures, has a good warrant to say, 

"All these are mine, for 
GOD HIMSELF is mine!"

GOD has spared me to read through 
HIS Word once more. Oh, what a treasure--
what unsearchable riches there 
are in this golden mine! 

I have never dug deeper, nor found 
more precious jewels than upon this 
last perusal. Indeed, upon every 
reading of the Bible it grows more 
precious to me, as  it has become 
the conveyance of the unsearchable 
riches of CHRIST to me.

This I chiefly seek for, that I may get a 
growing experience of the wisdom of GOD 
and of the power of GOD in HIS Word--
and may thereby enjoy the blessings 
of HIS love promised in it. 

It is our duty to read and meditate 
on the Word, but we should always 
do it with the fixed dependence of 
our hearts upon HIS divine teaching; 
without whichthe Word itself will
 profit us nothing. 

May the SPIRIT keep us in the use 
of means, but entirely dependent 
upon HIM in the use of them. 

The Word of GOD can be made 
useful to us, only by the enlightening 
of the SPIRIT of GOD.

It is by continual dependence 
on the teaching of the SPIRIT, in and 
by the Word, and by mixing faith with it--
that we come to find its value and 
to taste its pleasures. For it then 
opens a new world to us, a spiritual 
and eternal world.

Thanks be to HIM . . .
  who revealed HIS Word to me,
  who opened my eyes to see wondrous 
     things out of HIS law, 
  who often made me look up and say, 

"Oh, how sweet are YOUR words 
to my taste; yes, sweeter than
 honey to my mouth!" (Psalm 119:103)

GOD has made HIS Word very precious 
to me. My love for it has grown much 
in taste and value: in taste, it is sweeter 
than honey; in value, it is more precious 
than gold, yes, than much fine gold! 

As I dig deeper, the mine becomes richer, 
and the treasures of grace are greatly 
enhanced by their being the pledges of glory. 

The great end and design of the Scripture, 
is to conform us to itself. When the Word 
is understood and believed and lived upon--
HE then makes it the means of conforming 
the whole man to it. The believer is cast 
into the mold of it; he takes the impression--
every feature. It is so assimilating that 
every tint is to be seen upon him. 

He lives the Word--
it is to be read in his looks, 
visible in his walk, manifest in his 
tempers. See him, study him--
he is the living picture of 
a Bible-Christian! 

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GraceGems has just published several additional compilations of 
William Romaine's letters. 

All of these are insightful, helpful and practical.