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From Heaven With Love
knowledge will do us no good. We must feed upon Christ. His life,
His love, His grace, must be assimilated.
“As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so
he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me.” So fully was Jesus
surrendered to the will of God that the Father alone appeared in
His life. Although tempted in all points like as we are, He stood
untainted by the evil that surrounded Him. Thus we also are to
overcome as Christ overcame.
Are you a follower of Christ? Then all that is written concerning
the spiritual life may be attained through uniting yourself to Jesus.
Has your first love grown cold? Accept again the love of Christ. Eat
of His flesh, drink of His blood, and you will become one with the
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Father and with the Son.
By ritual law the Jews were forbidden to taste blood, and they
now construed Christ’s language into sacrilegious speech. Many
even of the disciples said, “This is an hard saying; who can hear it?”
The Saviour answered them: “Doth this offend you? What and
if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before? It is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that
I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
Life in the Word
The life of Christ that gives life to the world is in His word.
By His word Jesus healed disease and cast out demons; by His
word He stilled the sea and raised the dead. The whole Bible is a
manifestation of Christ, and the Saviour desired to fix the faith of
His followers on the word. When His visible presence should be
withdrawn, the word must be the source of their power.
As our physical life is sustained by food, so our spiritual life
is sustained by the Word of God. As we must eat for ourselves,
so we must receive the Word of ourselves. We should carefully
study the Bible, asking God for the aid of the Holy Spirit, that we
may understand His Word. We should take one verse, ascertain the
thought God has put in that verse for us, and dwell upon the thought
until it becomes our own.
In His promises and warnings, Jesus means me. God so loved the
world, that He gave His Son, that I by believing in Him, might not