That’s the shorter spelling.  It is the universal spelling.  That love is being spelled out to all the race by every twinkling star in the upper blue, every shade of green in the lower brown, by every cooling shading night, and every fragrantly dewy morning.  Every breath of air and bite of food and draught of water is repeating God’s spelling lesson.  These are the pages in God’s primer.  So we all may learn to spell out God.  And so we get the right spelling of our own lives.

Then there’s the other spelling, the five-lettered, J-e-s-u-s.  It’s the same thing, only spelled differently; spelled in a yet better way.  The spelling grows bigger to us when Jesus comes.  When we know Him it takes more to spell out and to tell out God’s love.  God grows larger to our eyes as He comes walking among us as Jesus.  No, He doesn’t grow larger.  We simply begin to find out how large He is.

This is the closer, more human spelling.  The letters are nearer and seem bigger as they come walking down the street where we live, and knock at our own door.  They’re easier spelled out.  We can get hold of them better.  Love is a thing, we think.  Jesus is a person.  It’s so different to touch a person.  But when we know, we know that both spellings tell the same thing.  So far, only about a third of us have heard anything about this second, this closer spelling.  Two out of three haven’t heard about it yet.  But those who really know this spelling are eager for the others to get it, too.

God is always controlled by a great simple purpose in thinking of you and me.  And it is an unfailing purpose of strong tender love.  This is the first key.  Any one may take it and use it.  It is unfailing.  It will fit every lock.  It unlock every problem.  It will open up the riches to any life.  They’re brought within easy reach of any hand by the steady use of this key.

This is the key to God.  It unlocks the doors and lets Him freely into our lives.  Then we find out how much truer it is than we can understand.

Then there’s the key to the Book of God. There are many keys here, of course.  Daily time alone with the Book, thoughtful reading, prayer, some simple plan, putting into your life what has been put in its pages,—­these are all good keys.  But there’s a master-key, the master-key.  It is simply this:  glad surrender of will to the God of the Book.  I mean a strong intelligent yielding to His mastery in all of one’s plans and life.  The highest act of the strongest will is yielding to a higher will when you find it.  And you find the higher, the highest, will here.

This is the master-key.  Bending the will affects eyes and ears and mind.  The hinges of eye and ear are in the will.  As the will bends those hinges move of themselves.  Eye and ear and mind open.  The lower the will bends, the more fully and habitually, the more will eyes and ears open, the keener and more alert will be the mental processes, the more intelligent the understanding.  And there comes to be a continual mutual shifting.  With better understanding can come stronger more intelligent yielding of will, and so again clearer light.