Our first pursuits in the morning generally indicate where our hearts are. The children of Israel had to gather their daily food before sunrise, or they would be too late; and if the believer can rise from his bed and go about the business of this life before he has looked up to the Lord, and turned to the Scriptures which testify of Him, for the renewal of the inward man, it is more than probable that his heart has got away from God. Nothing can possibly make up for a lack of food, for "Christ is all"; and those who really live upon Him can say.
"Nothing but Christ, as on we tread,
The Gift unpriced-God's living Bread-
With staff in hand, and feet well shod,
Nothing but Christ, the Christ of God."