GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 20

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU……….. WILL FIGHT FOR ME WHEN I STAND STILL….Ex 14:14

JESUS, YOU ……..WILL REVEAL YOUR NAME TO ME AND SHOW ME ITS POWER

…ISAIAH 52:6

JESUS, YOU…………..HAVE CHOSEN TO  GIVE ME THE KINGDOM …LUKE 12:32

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MAY 20 ~ ~ We are finishing the chapter entitled, “as Christ in The Father” in the book Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray

THE WORD FOR TODAY

John 15:5

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

Believer, abide in the love of Christ.  Take and study His relation to the Father as a pledge of what your own can become.  As blessed, as mighty, as glorious as was His life in the Father, can yours be in Him.  Let this truth, accepted under the teaching of the Spirit in faith, remove every vestige of fear, as if abiding in Christ were a burden and a work.  In the light of His life in the Father, let it henceforth be to you a blessed rest in the union with Him, an overflowing fountain of joy and strength.  To abide in His love, His mighty, saving, keeping, satisfying love, even as He abode in the Father’s love – surely the very greatness of our calling teaches us that it never can be a work we have to perform; it must be with us as with Him, the result of the spontaneous overflowing of a life from within and the mighty inworking of the love from above.  The only thing we need is this:  to take time and study the divine image of this life of love set before us in Christ.  We need to have our souls still unto God, gazing upon that life of Christ in the Father until the light from heaven falls on it and we hear the living voice of our Beloved whispering gently to us personally the teaching He gave to the disciples.  Soul, be still and listen; let every thought be hushed until the word has entered your heart too:  “child! I love you, even as the Father loved Me.  Abide in My love, even as I abide in the Father’s love.  Your life on earth in Me is to be the perfect counterpart of Mine in the Father.

If the thought will sometimes come: “Surely this is too high for us; can it be really true?” only remember that the greatness of the privilege is justified by the greatness of the object He has in view.  Christ was the revelation of the Father on earth.  He could not be this if there were not the most perfect unity, the most complete communication of all the Father had to the Son.  He could be it because the Father loved Him, and He abode in that love.  Believers are the revelation of Christ on earth.  They cannot be this unless there is perfect unity, so that the world can know that He loves them and has sent them.  But they can be it if Christ loves them with the infinite love that gives itself and all it has and if they abide in that love.

Lord, show us Your love.  Make us with all the saints to know the love that passes knowledge (Ephesians 3:19). 

Lord, show us in Your own blessed life what it is to abide in your love.   The sight will so win us that it will be impossible for us, even for one single hour, to seek any other life than the life of abiding in Your love.

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