“Because I live ye shall live also” (John xiv. 19).
After having become adjusted to our Living Head and the source of our
life, now our business is to abide, absorb and grow, leaning on His
strength, drinking in His life, feeding on Him as the Living Bread, and
drawing all of our resources from Him in continual dependence and
communion. The Holy Spirit will be the great Teacher and Minister in this
blessed process. He will take of the things of Christ and show them unto
us, and He will impart them through all the channels and functions of our
spiritual organism. As we yield ourselves to Him He will breathe His own
prayer of communion, drawing out our hearts in longings and hungerings,
which are the pledge of their own fulfilment, calling us apart in silent
and wordless prayer and opening every pore, organ, sense and sensibility
of our spiritual being to take in His life. As the lungs absorb the oxygen
of the atmosphere, as the senses breathe in the sweet odors of the garden,
so the heart instinctively receives and rejoices in the affection and
fellowship of the beloved One by our side. Thus we become like a tree
planted by the rivers of waters.