Acquiesce to Righteousness

"If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come
unto him and make our abode with him." John 14:23. Can we ask for anything more
beautiful than that? Jesus and the Father will come and make their home with us-no
matter how humble it is. They will make it beautiful. They will make it a safe place for
children to be born. No quarreling, no bitterness, no divorces can ever come into the
home where Jesus lives. This home life with Jesus is the mother of faith. It makes our
home relationship beautiful.
We meet dishonesty and faithlessness without saying an unkind word. We enter into a
new kind of life where we never think of being neglected, forgotten or ignored. We never
remember anything that is unkind. This new love is life: this new life is love. We forgive
those who are dishonest because this new life has taken possession of us. We are
taking Jesus' place in the earth. We are loving as Jesus would love. We are giving as
Jesus would give. We are as helpful as the Master would be in our place. We live with
Him. His love is our love. His strength is our strength. His ability is ours. We are His own
love slaves. We love Him because He loves us.
OUR NEW FREEDOM
HERE has been coming to the hearts of our people a new sense of freedom in Christ. It
is a new sense of freedom in the Father's presence. It is the abandonment to love.
There has come a new freedom in love, a new freedom in the Word. For years we were
like a boat landlocked in a narrow lagoon. Now we are sailing on the bosom of the
mighty ocean. There is a new sense of superiority over the circumstances that terrified
and held us in bondage, the consciousness of that tremendous reality-"Greater is he
that is in you than he that is in the world." It has given us a new consciousness of
superiority over disease and pain. Sickness held us in bondage of fear and dread, but
we are no longer afraid of it. It has been conquered. The Name of Jesus is greater.
Our relationship with the Father makes us greater. We are sons and daughters of God
Almighty. We are partakers of His nature. We are members of His household. We are
as near to His heart as Jesus was when He walked the earth. There has come to us a
new sense of oneness with Christ. That joint heirship is a reality. It is more than the
clasp of a hand. It is more than an embrace. It is a union. It is an organic oneness.
A spiritual harmony flows from it. It is a masterful thing. We are one with Him!
The branch discovers its union with the Vine. It abandons worry and care.
The branch says, "I no longer worry whether the bud will blossom, whether the blossom
will turn into fruit. I have no anxious care. The vine takes care of it all. The vine dresser
and I are so utterly one now that I rest quietly in the embrace of the vine." The new
sense of authority in Christ, born out of slavery into victory, out of weakness into the
ability to use the Name with authority, has come to us. A new strange sense of
fellowship has come. A joy that only came intermittently now lives with us permanently.