How then to have our faith increased? Only by thinking of all that Jesus is and all He is for us: His life, His death, His work. He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving to have faith, or to increase our faith, but a looking off to the Faithful One. --A sentence from John McCarthy to Hudson Taylor that transformed
Mr. Taylor's life
Here, I feel, is the secret: not asking how I am to get sap out of the vine into myself, but to remember that Jesus is the Vine--the root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit, all ndeed. Let us not then want to get anything out of Him, but rejoice in being ourselves in Him--one with Him, and consequently, with all
His fullness.--Hudson Taylor
My spiritual problem is not getting what I need, but understanding what is already mine in Christ and, by faith, operating out of that paradigm.--Chip Kirk
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