A friend recently sent me this beautiful quote in a note for my 21st birthday:
Jesus Christ does not want to be our helper; He wants to be our Life.
He does not want us to work for Him; He wants to do His work through us,
using us as we use a pencil to write with.
- Charles Trumball
Jesus Christ doesn't want half or 3/4 of us, He wants ALL of us! We must forsake all and follow Him; He wants to be our life. Not just part of our life. We must abide in Him, and Him in us.
"If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you... As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love. If ye keep My commandments ye shall abide in my love...This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."
John 15:7,9,10,12
"...He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law...Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
Romans 13:8&10
"These things have I spoken unto you, that My JOY might remain in you, and that your JOY might be full (to make replete...to cram, level up, furnish, satisfy...)"
John 15:11
