True Holiness –Abiding in Christ

In speaking to the Gentile Christians in Romans 11:16, Paul says “For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.” Christ became the first fruit so that we might become partakers of all that our Father has for us. The very holiness of the Almighty God, the very nature of the great I AM planted within His bride. Jesus reminds us that we can only have the nature of the Father if we abide—to dwell, to remain, to sit, tarry—in Him.

In the busyness of our lives, we often neglect the most important thing. Jesus was never too busy to spend time with the Father. Do you ever wonder what it would be like to walk so closely with God that your thoughts would become His thoughts, your will would become His will?

This one thing I know, God wants us to abide in Him. There is no TRUE life for His children outside the root of Jesus Christ. The world offers all kinds of counterfeit “life” that gives a false sense of satisfaction and contentment for a brief time; but the Holy Spirit dwelling within the children of God will always move us back to a place of longing and searching for the true life that can only be found by abiding in Christ.

I pray that you are learning to abide—to dwell, remain, sit, tarry—in Jesus Christ. It is the abiding in the root, the taking on the nature of Christ Himself, that produces holiness within the branches. Let us be “rooted and grounded” in the Lord Jesus, our coming Bridegroom.

Even so, come Lord Jesus, come.

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