In one of my early pastorates I asked one of the members of my church how she was getting along in her Christian life. She replied: " Very poorly. My life is a disgrace to me and to the church: It is a disgrace to Jesus Christ. I don't understand why it is." " Do you study your Bible every day?" I asked. " Oh, no; but I study it occasionally, when I have time." A little baby was lying in a baby carriage near by, and I said: " Suppose you should feed that baby once in two hours to-day and once in six hours to-morrow, then let it go without eating at all for three or four days because you were busy, and then go back and feed it every two hours the next day, and keep up that process: do you think the child would grow?" " No," she said, " I think the child would die under such treatment." " And yet that is just the way you are treating your soul." ~ W. R. Clark

1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.