Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.

Work out your own salvation . . . for it is God who works in you. – Philippians 2:12-13.

These two streams of truth are like the rain-shower that falls upon the water-shed of a country. The one-half flows down the one side of the everlasting hills, and the other down the other. Falling into rivers that water different continents, they at length find the sea, separated by the distance of half the globe. But the sea into which they fall is one, in every creek and channel. And so the truth into which these two apparent opposites converge is “the depth of the wisdom and the knowledge of God,” Whose ways are past finding out—the Author of all goodness, Who, if we have any holy thought, has given it us; if we have any true desire, has implanted it; has given us the strength to do the right and to live in His fear; and Who, yet, doing all the willing and the doing, says to us, “Because I do everything, therefore let not thy will be paralyzed or thy hand palsied; but because I do everything, therefore will thou according to My will, and do thou according to My commandments!”
~ MACLAREN

Scripture for opening text taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, ESV © 2016 by Crossway Bibles.
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