The purpose in reading a book of the Bible may be widely different this month to what it was last. Let us take the epistle to the Philippians for instance. Then I may have read it in order to trace out the four aspects of Christ's sufficiency for His own. Today I may study it to see the relation in which the assembly stands to the gospel. Later on I may read it to find the motives for joy and rejoicing which were set before the Philippians; or again, taking it as a letter of acknowledging receipt of a delayed contribution, I read it with desire to enter into the mutual sympathies of the servant and the saints.