June 12, 2020-Chapter 9: "Ye Are The Branches"- Question: 2

QUESTION: 2

This relationship we have with Christ in our lives, as branches, is the type of relationship our Lord wants to have with us, total dependency. And how does He fulfill that trust of dependency that we should have in Him? Does this dependency only happen from time to time during certain periods of our life with Him? Explain your answer. (Page 93)

ANSWER To Question 2 (As stated by the Author)

And how does He fulfill the trust of that dependence? He does it by sending down the Holy Spirit-not now and then only as a special gift, for remember the relationship between the vine and the branches is such that hourly, daily, unceasingly there is the living connection maintained. The sap does not flow for a time, and then stop. and then flow again, but from moment to moment the sap flows from the vine to the branches. And just so, my Lord Jesus wants me to take that blessed position as a worker, and morning by morning and day by day and hour by hour and step by step, in every work I have to go out to just to abide before Him in the simple utter helplessness of one who knows nothing, and is nothing, and can do nothing.

PERSONAL COMMENT:

To be able to live as a "branch" connected to the Vine, (Jesus), with total dependency in the power of the Holy Spirit, we must constantly die to self daily, moment-by-moment. I think of the bible verse in Galatians:

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me". (Galatians 2:20)