“We abide in Him.” 1 John 4:13
“Do you want a house for your soul?
Do you ask, “What is the purchase?” It is something less than proud human
nature will like to give. It is without money and without price. Ah! You would
like to pay a respectable rent! Would you love to do something to win Christ?
Then you cannot have the house, for it is ‘without price.’ Will you take my
Master’s house on a lease for all eternity, with nothing to pay for it, nothing
but the ground-rent of loving and serving Him forever? Will you take Jesus and ‘abide
in Him?’
See, this house is furnished with
all you want, it is filled with riches more than you will spend as long as you
live. Here you can have intimate communication with Christ and here are tables
well-stored with food for you to live forever. In it, when weary, you can find
rest with Jesus and from it you can look out and see heaven itself. Will you
have the house?
Ah! If you are houseless, you will
say, ‘I should like to have the house, but may I have it?’ Yes, there is the
key-the key is. ‘Come to Jesus.’ ‘But,’ you say, ‘I am too shabby for such a
house.’ Never mind, there are garments inside. If you feel guilty and
condemned, come. Christ will make you good enough for the house by-and-by. He
will wash you and cleanse you, and you will yet be able to sing, ‘We abide in
Him.’
Believer, how happy are you to have
such a dwelling place! You are greatly privileged for you have a ‘strong
habitation’ in which you are ever safe. And ‘dwelling in Him,’ you have not
only a perfect and secure house, but an everlasting one. When this world shall
have melted like a dream, our house shall live, and stand more imperishable
than marble, more solid than granite, self-existent as God, for it is God
Himself.
-We
abide in Him.
~Charles Spurgeon