"Your Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." (Psalm 119:105) "For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light." (Proverbs 6:28)
This is true of God's Word as a whole, but it is equally true of every portion of it. One does not need to eat all the corn there is in the world; in order to have life; there is life in every grain. So there is life in every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, for each word is living and active; it is life.
But the life is the light. "The Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." (John 1:1,4)
In every sentence of the Bible there is something to enlighten us. From the seemingly most obscure and meaningless statements, there will flash forth the most glorious light, if we but consider them attentively.
More than this, these very obscure passages, some of them seeming to be utterly irrelevant, will give light that will make a host of other things shine with increased brilliancy.
Do you not know that a single ray of light flashed into a dark room will reveal everything that is in it? Let the sun but for a single moment flash out through a rift in a thick cloud, and the whole landscape will be transfigured, and objects that were before unnoticed will stand out in hold relief.
So from a single text of Scripture, to which careful, earnest attention is given, will often come light that will flash through the entire Bible, making everything appear new. Everybody who has given any real study to the Bible must have had some experience of this kind.
Therefore let no one lightly esteem any portion of the Bible; and let no one think it a waste of time to spend hours, and days, and months, and even years, in meditating upon and studying a small section of it.
If one will do this, not neglecting of course to read the rest of the Bible, he will acquire such a knowledge of the whole as will not possibly be gained in any other way.--Present Truth, May 4, 1899--Psalm 119:105.