June 19, 2020-Chapter 9: "Ye Are The Branches"- Question: 5

QUESTION: 5

Our relationship with the Lord should always be in constant and continual communication with Him. Our Lord tells us to “abide in Him”? What does this mean. Is it a conscious decision or something else? (Page 99)

ANSWER To Question 5 (As stated by the Author)

It means close fellowship with Christ in secret prayer. I am sure there are Christians who do long for the higher life, and who sometimes have got a great blessing, and have at times found a great inflow of heavenly joy and a great outflow of heavenly gladness; and yet after a time it has passed away. They have not understood that close personal actual communion with Christ is an absolute necessity for daily life. Take time to be alone with Christ. Nothing in Heaven or earth can free you from the necessity for that, if you are to be happy and holy Christians.

"And now, what do you understand, little branch, about your relationship to the vine?"

"My relationship is just this: I am utterly given up to the vine, and the vine can give me as much or as little sap as it chooses. Here I am at its disposal and the vine can do with me what it likes."

Personal Comment:

As we close out this last question of this final chapter, let us not forget what "absolute surrender" truly means one's life...Let the following be our prayer every day of our life:

"My God, let my life be a proof of what the omnipotent God can do. Let these be the two dispositions of my soul every day to You, - deep helplessness and simple childlike rest.

My prayer and hope is that this book, "Absolute Surrender" has opened your eyes to what true surrender means in your life. Please write me and let me know the difference these posting have made in your life.

Next week I will begin new postings of my own daily reading from God's Word, and share with you how "absolute surrender" applies to my daily living.