Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Jan 21, 2007 4:31:27 GMT -5
Because I Live, Ye Shall Live Also
After having become adjusted to our Living Head
and the source of our life, our business now is to
abide, absorb and grow. We do this by leaning on
Christ's strength, drinking in His life, feeding on Him
as the Living Bread and drawing all of our resources
from Him in continual dependence and communion.
The Holy Spirit will be the great Teacher and Minister
in this blessed process. He will take of the things of
Christ and show them to us, and He will impart them
through all the channels and functions of our spiritual lives.
As we yield ourselves to Him
He will breathe His own prayer of communion,
drawing out our hearts in longings and hungerings,
which are the pledge of their own fulfillment,
calling us apart in silent and wordless prayer,
and opening every sense and sensibility of
our spiritual beings to take in His life.
As the lungs absorb the oxygen from the atmosphere,
as the senses breathe in the sweet odors of the garden,
so the heart instinctively receives and rejoices in the
affection and fellowship of the beloved One by our sides.
Thus each of us becomes like a tree planted
by the rivers of water (Psalm 1:3).
A. B. SIMPSON
www.sermonindex.net
After having become adjusted to our Living Head
and the source of our life, our business now is to
abide, absorb and grow. We do this by leaning on
Christ's strength, drinking in His life, feeding on Him
as the Living Bread and drawing all of our resources
from Him in continual dependence and communion.
The Holy Spirit will be the great Teacher and Minister
in this blessed process. He will take of the things of
Christ and show them to us, and He will impart them
through all the channels and functions of our spiritual lives.
As we yield ourselves to Him
He will breathe His own prayer of communion,
drawing out our hearts in longings and hungerings,
which are the pledge of their own fulfillment,
calling us apart in silent and wordless prayer,
and opening every sense and sensibility of
our spiritual beings to take in His life.
As the lungs absorb the oxygen from the atmosphere,
as the senses breathe in the sweet odors of the garden,
so the heart instinctively receives and rejoices in the
affection and fellowship of the beloved One by our sides.
Thus each of us becomes like a tree planted
by the rivers of water (Psalm 1:3).
A. B. SIMPSON
www.sermonindex.net