GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 18

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES;

JESUS, YOU………..ARE THE EVERLASTING ROCK…Is 26:10

JESUS, YOU………..ARE THE ROCK OF OFFENSE (TO THE UNSAVED)…Is 8:14; Rom 9:33;  1Peter 2:8

JESUS, YOU………ARE THE ROCK OF ISRAEL….Ps 23:3;  Is 30:29

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

John 15:9

“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love”

We are beginning chapter 23, “As Christ In The Father” in Andrew Murray’s book Abide in Christ

Christ had taught His disciples that to abide in Him was to abide in His love.  The hour of His suffering was near, and He could not speak much more to them.  Doubtless, they had many questions to ask as to what abiding in Him and His love is.  He anticipated and met their wishes, and gave them His own life as the best exposition of His command.  As example and rule for their abiding in His love, they had to look to His abiding in the Father’s love.  In the light of His union with the Father, their union with Him would become clear.  His life in the Father was the law of their life in Him.

The thought is so high that we can hardly take it in, yet it is so clearly revealed that we dare not neglect it.  Do we not read in John 6:57, “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.”  And the Savior prays so distinctly, “…..that they may be one, even as we are one:  I in them, and You (the Father) in Me……” (John 17:22-23)  The blessed union of Christ with the Father and His life in Him is the only rule of our thoughts and expectations in regard to our living and abiding in Him.

Think first of the origin of that life of Christ in the Father.  They were one – one in life and one in love.  In this, His abiding in the Father had its root.  Though dwelling here on earth, Jesus knew that He was one with the Father, that the Father’s life was in Him and the Father’s love on Him.  Without this knowledge, abiding in the Father and His love would have been utterly impossible.  It is only thus that you can abide in Christ and His love.  Know that you are one with Him – one in the unity of nature.  By His birth He became man and took your nature that He might be one with you.  By your new birth, you become one with Him, and are made a partaker of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).  The link that binds you to Him is as real and close as the link that bound Him to the Father – the link of a divine life.  Your claim on Him is as sure and always availing as was His on the Father.  Your union with Him is as close.

As it is the union of a divine life, it is one of an infinite love.  In His life of humiliation on earth, He tasted the blessed-ness and strength of knowing Himself the object of an infinite love, and of dwelling in it all day;  from His own example, He invites you to learn that herein lies the secret of rest and joy.  You are one with Him; yield yourself now to be loved by Him.  Let your eyes and heart open to the love that shines and presses in on you on every side.  Abide in His love.

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