should recognize that these passages are the Word of the living God, filled with spiritual truth that he needs for his own Christian life. A method absolutely necessary to the success of the others is the devotional study. The student should never come to Scripture with the idea of finding truth that applies only to someone else. He must come to the Bible looking for a personal blessing for himself. When he finds it, it will surely be worth sharing with others. As the old expositor J. A. Bengel said,