Trusting
What is it that keeps us from trusting Him perfectly? How am I to get that trust?
My answer is: By the death of self.
The great hindrance to trust is self-effort.
Wood
Wood speaks of man and his nature.
It stands in contrast to Gold, which represents God and His Nature.
God’s Covenant
God’s Covenant is: give all and take all.
One who is willing to be nothing but a Branch of Christ, the Vine,
Will receive liberty to claim Christ’s Riches in all their fullness
And the wisdom and humility to use them properly.
Live Exclusively
The believer, the branch of Christ the Heavenly Vine,
Is to Live Exclusively so Christ may Bear Fruit through him.
A True Christian is to be Devoted to the Work of Bearing Fruit to the Glory of God.
Bear Fruit
A branch is a growth of the Vine, produced to Bear Fruit.
It has only one purpose: that through it the Vine may Bear and Ripen its Fruit.
As the Vine lives to Produce the Sap that makes the Grape, so the branch Receives that Sap and Bears the Grape.
Its Work is to Serve the Vine so that, through the branch, the Vine may do its Work.
Christ
Who is a Minister of the Word?
He is one who translates Christ into the Bible; that is, he tells people of the Christ he knows in the Words of the Bible so that in those who receive the Bible the Holy Spirit will translate it back into Christ.
Necessary
The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Nay, much rather, those members of the Body which seem to be more feeble are necessary.