God's Word is Pure

I am continually impressed by how profoundly Thomas Manton, John Owen, and other Puritan teachers considered each verse of Scripture.  Reading them is like striking gold on every page.  They continually emphasized that the written word God is perfect, sufficient for the Christian’s every need.  Scripture reveals to us the holiness, excellence, and glory of God in such a way that every heart influenced by grace must love it.  The human heart seeing the divine glory mediated through the written word can respond in no other way.  To a person who is very hungry, food is good to them.  To someone with a terrible thirst, water is exactly what they want and require.  Even so, the word of God meets the needs of our souls as nothing else can.  God knows everything about us; the deepest and most tangled parts of our lives are not hidden from Him.  The Lord’s blessed word is so filled with divine encouragement that it draws our hearts to love it.  But we must also love God’s word for its holiness.  In Psalm 119:140 David says “Your word is very pure, therefore Your servant loves it.”  When a person would not want God’s law to be less strict than it is, when a person loves it because it is pure, strict, and holy, then you know that God has been doing a mighty work in that person’s heart.