Walk with God : Read the Scriptures

To begin with, believers maintain their walk with God by reading his holy Word. 

"Search the Scriptures," says our blessed Lord, "for these are they that testify of me" (John 5:39).

And the royal Psalmist tells us that God's Word was a "light unto his feet, and a lantern unto his paths" (Ps. 119:105).

He makes it one characteristic of a good man that "his delight is in the law of the Lord, and that he exercises himself therein day and night" (Ps. 1:2).

"Give thyself to reading," says Paul to Timothy (I Tim. 4:13).

"And this book of the law," says God to Joshua, "shall not go out of thy mouth" (Josh. 1:8).

For "whatsoever was written aforetime, was written for our learning" (Rom. 15:4).

And the word of God is "profitable for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, and every way sufficient to make every true child of God thoroughly furnished unto every good work" (2 Tim. 3:16).

If we ever think we are above our Bibles, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion, and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience. 

Our blessed Lord, though he had the Spirit of God without measure, yet always was governed by, and fought the devil with "It is written" (Matt. 4:4,6,7).

This the apostle calls the "sword of the Spirit" (Eph. 6:17).

We may say of it, as David said of Goliath's sword, "There is none like this." 

The Scriptures are called the lively oracles of God: not only because they are generally made use of to beget in us a new life, but also to keep up and increase it in the soul. 

The apostle Peter, in his second epistle, prefers it even to seeing Christ transfigured upon the mount. 

For after he had said, "The voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount," he added, "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arises in your hearts" (2 Pet. 1: 18,19).

That is, till we shake off these bodies, and see Jesus face to face.

Till then we must see and converse with him through the glass of his Word.

We must make his testimonies our counselors and daily, with Mary, sit at Jesus' feet by faith hearing his word.