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FINAL SUGGESTIONS
1. Study the Bible daily.
a. Act_17:11 ["These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Act_17:11).
b. Many will say I cannot spare the time. It will be time saved.
c. Fix upon some time, even if it is no more than fifteen minutes to start with, and hold it until you are ready to set a longer period.
2. Select for your Bible study the best portion of the day you can give it.
a. Do not put your Bible study off until nearly bed-time, when the mind is drowsy.
b. Do not take the time immediately after a heavy meal.
c. The early hours of the day are the best for Bible study.
d. It is well wherever possible, to lock yourself in and lock the world out.
3. In all your Bible study look for Christ in the passage under examination.
a. Luk_24:27 ["And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself" (Luk_24:27)].
4. Memorize Scripture.
a. Psa_119:11 ["Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee" (Psa_119:11)], Mat_4:4; Mat_4:7; Mat_4:10 ["4 But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the LORD thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve" (Mat_4:4; Mat_4:7; Mat_4:10)], Isa_1:4 ["Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, the yare gone away backward" (Isa_1:4), 2Ti_3:17 ["That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works" (2Ti_3:17)].
b. Memorize the Scripture in systematic form.
5. Utilize spare moments in the study of the Bible.
a. Or one can utilize it in the meditation upon texts stored away in memory.
b. There is no way of economizing time so thriftily as putting the moments that are going to waste into the study of or meditation upon the Word of God.