The One we saw last night opening the Scriptures, we now see opening minds. In the first work, he has many fellow-laborers. In the second, he stands absolutely alone. Many can bring the Scriptures to your mind, but only the Lord can prepare your mind to receive the Scriptures.

Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers. They reach the ear—he instructs the heart! They deal with the outward letter—he imparts an inward taste for the truth, by which we perceive its savor and spirit. The most unlearned person becomes a ripe scholar in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus, through his Holy Spirit, unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom and grants the divine anointing that enables them to behold the invisible.

Happy are we if the Master has cleared and strengthened our understanding! How many men of profound learning are ignorant of eternal things! They know the killing letter of Scripture, but its life-giving Spirit they cannot discern. A veil lies upon their hearts which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate.

Such was our case a little time ago. We who now see were once utterly blind. Truth was to us as beauty in the dark—a thing unnoticed and neglected. Had it not been for the love of Jesus, we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance. For without his gracious opening of our understanding, we could no more have attained to spiritual knowledge than an infant can climb the pyramids, or an ostrich fly up to the stars.

Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned. Other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.