Someone must spend the time to rule up the small squares: someone must draw down

the pattern in outline; someone must spend their precious time simply filling in a

"background".  There is a temptation to go off after something more "original" or

spectacular, but commendation is only for those who obey and whose service has been

according to plan. When the pattern is complete the ruled up squares will have vanished.

Yet the Lord knows all about the quiet "humdrum", and without it the pattern would not

hold together nor be true and pleasing.

(4) The right division of the Word (II Tim. 2: 15).--This is fundamental to all study.

Right division recognizes the difference between kingdom and church, the mystery and

the gospel, also the many sub-divisions that clarify the vision.

Timothy's Bible would have been the Greek Septuagint (he was a Galatian, and his

father was a Greek). Consequently the word used by the apostle for "rightly dividing"

would have been familiar to Timothy, for it comes in that well known verse, Prov. 3: 6:

"In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall rightly divide (direct) thy paths."

The illustration of a sign post at the fork in the road is a scriptural representation of

"right division" which can be appreciated by all.