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ALL STRENGTH IN CHRIST

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him rooted and builded up in Him, and stablished in your faith. - Colossians 2:6.

Speak we of strength? Christ is the type of strength. Of beauty? He is the perfection of beauty. And it is only as we keep close to Him that our lives will be all fair with the reflected loveliness of His, and strong with the communicated power of His grace - " strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might." If we are to set forth anything,in our daily lives, of this strength, remember our lives must be rooted in, as well as bedewed by, God. Hosea’s emblems, beautiful and instructive as they are, do not reach to the deep truth set forth in still holier and sweeter words. " I am the Vine, ye are branches." The union of Christ and His people is closer than that between dew and plant. Our growth results from the communication of His own life to us. Therefore is the command stringent and obedience to it blessed, "Abide in Me - for apart from Me, ye can do" - and are - " nothing."

Let us remember that the loftier the top of the tree the wider the spread of its sheaves of dark foliage; if it is steadfastly to stand, immovable by the loud winds when they call, the deeper must its roots strike into the firm earth. If your life is to be a fair temple-palace, worthy of God’s dwelling in, if it is to be impregnable to assault, there must be quite as much masonry underground as above, as is the case in great old buildings and palaces. And such a life must be a life "hid with Christ in God." Then it will be strong. When we strike our roots deep into Him, our branch also shall not wither, and our leaf shall be green, and all that we do shall prosper. The wicked are not so. They are like chaff- rootless, fruitless, lifeless, which the wind driveth away.

"Apart from Me ye can do nothing." There is the condemnation of all the busy life of men which is not lived in union with Jesus Christ. It is a long row of figures which, like some other long rows of figures added up, amount just to zero. "Without Me- nothing." All your busy life, when you come to sum it up, is made up of plus and minus quantities, which precisely balance each other; and the net result, unless you are in Christ, is just nothing; and on your gravestones the only right epitaph is a great round cypher - " He did not do anything. There is nothing left of his toil; the whole thing has evaporated and disappeared." That is life apart from Jesus Christ. Separate from Christ the individual shrivels, and the possibilities of fair buds wither and set into no fruit. And no man is the man he might have been unless he holds by Jesus Christ and lets His life come into him.

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