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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Divine Adjustment by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1930.

It is necessary for us to develop strength and individuality.

We have to become so strong that no dominating ego can have any power or influence over us. We have to maintain our liberty and be free, individualized

beings. If we do not maintain our freedom, we not only become weak people

without individuality or character, but we also are liable to find ourselves dominated by some

strong ego to such an extent that our life ceases to be our own.

Now many of us may recognize the necessity of being strongly individualistic and capable of resisting

suggestion, but how are we to develop such strength? Reading and intellectual knowledge will not bring us into the

desired state. These have their legitimate use, but they can take us only part of the way.

For example, it is one thing to read a portion of scripture that describes the strength

and liberty that may be ours, and quite another thing to be able to realize the truth of it.

Some of us may have been reading the Bible all of our lives, yet it has been read without

understanding, so that it has poured through our mind, like water through a sieve. We may have

believed that there is power and strength to be found in the inspired word, but we have never been able to lay hold of it.

The mere reading of the Word of God is not sufficient.

To read a whole chapter, as one would an ordinary book, is better than not reading the Bible

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