“He that eateth Me, even He shall live by Me” (John vi. 57).
What the children of God need is not merely a lot of teaching, but the
Living Bread. The best wheat is not good food. It needs to be ground and
baked before it can be digested and assimilated so as to nourish the
system. The purest and the highest truth cannot sanctify or satisfy a
living soul.
He breathes the New Testament message from His mouth with a kiss of love
and a breath of quickening power. It is as we abide in Him, lying upon His
bosom and drinking in His very life that we are nourished, quickened,
comforted and healed.
This is the secret of Divine healing. It is not believing a doctrine, it
is not performing a ceremony, it is not wringing a petition from the
heavens by the logic of faith and the force of your will; but it is the
inbreathing of the life of God; it is the living touch which none can
understand except those whose senses are exercised to know the realities
of the world unseen. Often, therefore, a very little truth will bring us
much more help and blessing than a great amount of instruction.