June 17, 2020-Chapter 9: "Ye Are The Branches"- Question: 4

QUESTION: 4

As we find our true rest in our Lord, He will begin to produce the fruit in our lives that He wants to produce. But let’s be careful not to mistake “our work” that we are doing for the Lord, as the fruit He is trying to produce in us. How can we know in our hearts if we are trying to produce the fruits by our own efforts or if we are allowing the Holy Spirit to work His power through us? (Page 97-98)

ANSWER To Question 4 (As stated by the Author)

Let us again ask: What has the branch to do? You know the precious, inexhaustible word that Christ used: Abide. Your life is to be an abiding life. And how is the abiding to be? It is to be just like the branch in the vine, abiding every minute of the day. There are the branches, in close communion, in unbroken communion with the vine, from January to December. And cannot I live every day-it is to me an almost terrible thing that we should ask the question-cannot I live in abiding communion with the heavenly Vine?

But the abiding work is the work of the heart, not of the brain, the work of the heart clinging to and resting in Jesus, a work in which the Holy Spirit links us to Christ Jesus

PERSONAL COMMENT:

It is with our heart that we come to believe in all we do. It was through our heart that we came to believe in our Savior, Jesus.

Romans 10:10 (NIV)-For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

You've heard it said, that if you want to believe, it's a "Mind-Set". But for us to fully "abide in Jesus", it must become a "Heart Set". We must totally believe in our heart that we want to abide in our Lord every moment of our life. Nothing should take the place in our heart but our Lord, Jesus.