1 Corinthians 3:23
You are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
1 Corinthians 6:17
He who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
2 Corinthians 1:20-22
No matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
2 Corinthians 2:14
Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.
2 Corinthians 5:17-19
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!18 All this is from God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them
· What peace and rest, fully and finally to give up our abiding into the care of God and never have a wish or thought, never to offer a prayer or engage in an exercise connected with it, without first having the glad remembrance that what we do is only the manifestation of what God is doing in us!
· Faith is the ceasing from all nature’s efforts and all other dependence; faith is confessed helplessness casting itself upon God’s promise, and claiming its fulfillment; faith is the putting ourselves quietly into God’s hands for Him to do His work.
· Is it possible for the believer always to abide in Jesus? Is a life of unbroken fellowship with the Son of God indeed attainable here in this earthly life? Truly not, if the abiding is our work, to be done in our strength.
· When the Savior gives the command, “Abide in me,” with the promise, “He that abideth in me bringeth forth much fruit,” He speaks of that willing, intelligent, and whole-hearted surrender by which we accept His offer and consent to the abiding in Him as the only life we choose or seek.
· Abiding in Jesus is not a work that needs each moment the mind to be engaged, or the affections to be directly and actively occupied with it. It is an entrusting of oneself to the keeping of the Eternal Love, in the faith that it will abide near us, and with its holy presence watch over us and ward off the evil, even when we have to be most intently occupied with other things.
· We shall learn to believe that conscious abiding in Christ every moment, night and day, is indeed what God has prepared for them that love Him.
· Moment by moment, the lesson of day by day has something more to teach. Of the moments there are many where there is no direct exercise of the mind on your part; the abiding is in the deeper recesses of the heart, kept by the Father, to whom you entrusted yourself. But just this is the work that with each new day has to be renewed for the day—the distinct renewal of surrender and trust for the life of moment by moment.
· Let each day have its value from your calling to abide in Christ.
· As its light opens on your waking eyes, accept it on these terms: A day, just one day only, but still a day, given to abide and grow up in Jesus Christ. Whether it be a day of health or sickness, joy or sorrow, rest or work, of struggle or victory, let the chief thought with which you receive it in the morning thanksgiving be this: “A day that the Father gave; in it I may, I must become more closely united to Jesus.” As the Father asks, “Can you trust me just for this one day to keep you abiding in Jesus, and Jesus to keep you fruitful?” you cannot but give the joyful response: “I will trust and not be afraid.”
· You may be yet so feeble as to fear to say of each day, “I am abiding in Jesus”; but the feeblest can, each single moment, say, as he consents to occupy his place as a branch in the vine, “Yes, I do abide in Christ.” It is not a matter of feeling—it is not a question of growth or strength in the Christian life—it is the simple question whether the will at the present moment desires and consents to recognize the place you have in your Lord, and to accept it.
· If you are a believer, you are in Christ. If you are in Christ and wish to stay there, it is your duty to say, though it be but for a moment, “Blessed Savior, I abide in Thee now; Thou keepest me now.”
· If I can say, “Jesus is to me at this moment all that God gave Him to be—life, and strength, and peace”—I have but as I say it to hold still, and rest, and realize it, and for that moment I have what I need.