Just finished day eleven of Abide In Christ by Andrew Murray. This is a very amazing book and I highly recommend reading it. I've been told that there is a newer version of it that is easier to understand but even if you can only get the copy I have it is completely worth reading.
Andrew Murray was a missionary to Africa, and went to school in Ireland. He has over 240 published works. The translation I have is a little hard to read because of a difference in sentence structure but that helps me to focus on each word and not skim flippantly through this book filled with truths and treasures I need to tuck away in my heart. It is going to taking me way longer thirty-one days to complete this book but each day is like a feast and it take a long time to feast.)
In day ten I learned what grafting was. I already shared this in my post Able to be Holy Today He uses this previous lesson to reveal a deep truth that points back to abiding in Christ.
"When a graft is united with the stock on which it is to grow, we know that it must be kept fixed, it must abide in the place where the stock has been cut, been wounded, to make an opening to receive the graft. No graft with out wounding-the laying bare and opening up of the inner life of the tree to receive the stranger branch. It is only through such wounding that access can be obtained to the fellowship of the sap and the growth and life of the stronger stem. Even so with Jesus and the sinner. Only when we are planted into the likeness of His death shall we also be in the likeness of his resurrection, partakers of the life and the power there are in Him. In the death of the Cross Christ was wounded, and in His opened wounds is a place prepared where we might be grafted in"~Andrew Murray
His willingness to be wounded allows me to be grafted. I am the "stranger branch" that He, The Living Vine, takes in and gives all that I need for life.
My life is planted in Him and through Him alone will I have the resources I need to live. If I am removed from my former plant(saved by grace from my sins) and just do nothing but stay there I die because I am not attached to the vine that gives life. But if that little branch is grafted into The True Vine then it has abundant life in that graft.
Christ longs for us to get this....believe in Him for salvation and abide in Him for life. He wants us to have that relationship where all that flows in Him is available to us if we just abide.
Wounded for me, He lovingly provides a safe place on the vine where I receive all that I need for life.
Thank you Sweet Savior!
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