Communion with Christ requires our coming to Him. Meditating upon His person, and His work requires the diligent use of the means of grace, and specially the prayerful reading of His Word. Many fail to abide because they habitually fast instead of feed. It is the peculiarity of feeding upon Christ, the spiritual food, that it is the means by which the life is received, as well as the means by which it is maintained. In this it differs from earthly food, which, while it maintains life, cannot first