by Andrew Murray | May 1, 2024 | The Mystery of the True Vine
9th Day Except Ye Abide As the Branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the Vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me.—Ver. 4. We know the meaning of the word except. It expresses some indispensable condition, some inevitable law. “The branch cannot...
by Andrew Murray | May 1, 2024 | The Mystery of the True Vine
8th Day Abide Abide in Me, and I in you.—Ver. 4. When a new graft is placed in a vine, and it abides there, there is a twofold process that takes place. The first is in the wood. The graft shoots its little roots and fibres down into the stem, and the stem grows up...
by Andrew Murray | May 1, 2024 | The Mystery of the True Vine
7th Day The Pruning Knife Already ye are clean because of the word I have spoken unto you.—Ver. 3. What is the pruning knife of this Heavenly Husbandman? It is often said to be affliction. By no means in the first place. How would it then fare with many who have long...
by Andrew Murray | May 1, 2024 | The Mystery of the True Vine
6th Day The Cleansing Every Branch that beareth fruit, He cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.—Ver. 2. There are two remarkable things about the vine. There is not a plant of which the fruit has so much spirit in it, of which spirit can be so abundantly...
by Andrew Murray | May 1, 2024 | The Mystery of the True Vine
5th Day More Fruit And every Branch that beareth fruit, He cleanseth, that it may bear more fruit.—Ver. 2. The thought of fruit is so prominent in the eye of Him who sees things as they are, fruit is so truly the one thing God has set His heart upon, that our Lord,...
