“Taste and See” By Sundar Singh

About four years ago I was talking to a very learned man. He said: “It is very useful to know all about the Bible, and also to analyse every part of it”. Then, as an illustration, he took a cup of milk: he was a chemist. “Now, is it not so much sugar, and so many other things in milk?” He made everything separate. I said: “It is very interesting, I cannot go against it, but I should say that your little child of three years of age is better than you. This child cannot analyze the milk, but he drinks it and knows from experience that it is sweet, and in doing so, gets stronger every day. He does not know how many things it is made of, but he knows two important things: first, that the milk is sweet; second, that by it he is getting stronger. You have analyzed it, and in doing so have derived no benefit, and you have spoiled the milk.” There are many chemists who can analyze the Word of God. They say: “This part belongs to Palestine, this to Greece.” They can explain many things about it in different ways, but they never drink the spiritual milk. They analyse the Word of God but never drink it, they have not strength enough to overcome temptation; that is why there is great danger in criticism, and our Lord knew about these things when He took a little child and said: “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven”. You must be like a child who takes and drinks.