I earnestly urge you, dear young Christians, to make Bible reading your daily habit. Let it be a fixed principle with you that you need “the words of His mouth” for your soul’s nourishment and health, “more than your necessary food” for your body.
I have seen many a young Christian, and old ones, too, fall for the lack of this. You have found forgiveness, young believer, by faith in the atoning blood of Christ, and you are happy, supremely happy, but forgiveness, blessed as it is, is not food. If you have no food, you will have no strength. You will be hungry, and the hungry will eat anything.
If you do not go on applying yourself to the careful reading of your Bible, increasing in the knowledge of Christ, your famished soul will readily eat of the world’s dainties, and Satan will not be slow to spread them temptingly before you, but if you are nourished by the hidden Manna—if, by searching the Scriptures, your soul is filled with the knowledge and love of the Lord Jesus Christ, you will never hunger.