Abide in me. John 15:4. Lord, to whom shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life. John 6:68. For, it is good for me to draw near to God. I have put my trust in the Lord God. Psalms 73:28.
To abide in Christ, who is our righteousness and strength, and not to be moved from him, is the very life and power of Christianity; for to know him to be our righteousness, brings peace and joy: which joy in the Lord is certainly followed with strength, to overcome sin in the world, which believers renounce the more readily, as they have found something better in Christ. May the Lord give me grace, likewise, immoveably to abide in him.
Christ is my light, my life, my care,
My blessed hope, my heavenly prize;
Dearer than all my passions are,
My limbs, my bowels, or my eyes.
The strings that twine about my heart,
Tortures and racks may tear them off,
But they can never, never part.
With their dear hold of Christ my love.
My God! how can a humble child.
That loves thee with a flame so high,
Be ever from thy face exiled
Without the pity of thine eye?
Impossible! for thine own hand
Have tied my heart so fast to thee,
And in thy book the promise stands,
That where thou art, thy friends must be.