A Fruit-Bearing Tree Lives not for itself, but Wholly for those to whom its fruit Brings Refreshment and Life.
And so the branch exist only and entirely for the sake of the fruit.
To Make Glad the Heart of the Husbandman is its object, its safety, and its glory.
The Lord is after Utter Responsiveness to Himself,
SO THAT He Can Have a Free Way Unhindered.
He Simply Wants First to Obtain a People who will Work Together With Him.
Whenever People Begin Working With Him, He Performs Immediately.
Whether or not a matter is done is Dependent Upon How His Children Pray.
We therefore ought to Declare our Cooperation With Him.
God is Waiting to Bless us.
The question now is: Will We Pray?
Yet, as a matter of fact, it is not I whom God Tests, but actually He is Testing Himself, in Showing me, if He be Allowed To Do So, what the Lord Who Abides in me Can Do.
We Love Him, Because He first Loved us.
The move we Love God, the Closer we Draw Nigh to Him.
The Closer we are to Him, the Better we Know Him.
And the Better we Know Him, the More we Love Him, and Thirst After Him.
Yet it is those who are NOT offended who are Blessed.
We need, therefore, to get to a point where we have a Liking for His Ways,
Where we can say: If You, Lord Act According to Your Promise, Good! but if not, it is Also Good!
Not to be offended in the Lord is the highest and deepest form of discipline.
Just here lies the test.
We Believe Him in spite of that.
Christ Our Life!
Christ Before us as our Example.
Christ For us as our Propitiation.
Christ With us as our Savior from sin.
Christ In us as our Strength and our Life.
