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,...
by Andrew Murray | May 1, 2024 | The Mystery of the True Vine
4th Day The Fruit Every Branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He taketh it away.—Ver. 2. Fruit.—This is the next great word we have: the Vine, the Husbandman, the Branch, the Fruit. What has our Lord to say to us of fruit? Simply this—that fruit is the one thing the...
by Andrew Murray | May 1, 2024 | The Mystery of the True Vine
3rd Day The Branch Every Branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He taketh it away.—Ver. 2. Here we have one of the chief words of the parable—Branch. A vine needs branches: without branches it can do nothing, can bear no fruit. As important as it is to know about the...
