"As I sat last year under a wide-spreading beech, admiring the most wonderful of trees, I thought to myself, I do not think half as much of beech tree as the squirrel does. I see him leap from bough to bough, and I feel sure he values the old beech tree, because he has his home somewhere inside it in a hollow place, these branches are his shelter, and those beech-nuts are his food. He lives upon the tree. It is his world, his playground, his granary, his home; indeed it is everything to him, and it is not so for me, for I find my food and rest elsewhere. With God's Word it is well for us to be like squirrels, living in it and living on it. Let us exercise our minds by leaping from bough to bough of it, find our rest and food in it, and make it our all in all. We shall be the people who get the profit out of it if we make it be our food, our medicine, our treasury, our armory, our rest, our delight. May the Holy Spirit lead us to do this and make the Word thus precious to our souls."
C.H. Spurgeon
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