Our Father
Our Father!
You are Bound to God by the Closest and Gentlest Relationship.
You have a Right to His Love and His Power and His Blessing –
To His Answers to your Prayers.
Abide in Me
Let us day by day set ourselves at His Feet, and Meditate on This Word of His, with an eye Fixed On Him Alone.
Let us Set ourselves in Quiet Trust Before Him, Waiting to Hear His Voice – the Still Small Voice that is Mightier than the storm that rends the rocks – Breathing Its Quickening Spirit Within us, as He Speaks: Abide in Me.
Abide in Me
Abide in Me.
Until it Enter the Heart and Find a Place There, No More to be forgotten or neglected.
Abide in Me
And with no less earnestness than He had cried, Come to Me, did He plead, had you but noticed it, Abide in Me.
Abide in Me
It was NOT that He said, Come to Me and Abide with Me, but, Abide in Me.
Unbroken, Most Intimate and Complete.
He Opened His Arms, to Press you to His Bosom; He Opened His Heart, to Welcome you There; He Opened Up All His Divine Fulness of Life and Love, and Offered to Take you Up Into Its Fellowship, to Make you Wholly One with Himself.
Abide In Me
While Trusting in their Saviour for Pardon and for Help, and Seeking to some extent to Obey Him, they have HARDLY REALIZED to What Closeness of Union, to What Intimacy of Fellowship, to What Wondrous Oneness of Life and Interest, He Invited them when He Said, Abide In Me.
