Spurgeon's Daily Meditations
Abide in me
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.”
Communion with Christ is the secret of fruitfulness. The branch does not labour to bear fruit; it abides, and the sap of the vine produces the cluster. So with the Christian: the busy doing, the running about for souls, the multiplied service — all this is nothing if we be not first abiding in Christ.
Abide. The word is gentle and strong together. Stay where thou art set; cease the wandering; let Christ be home to thee. Begin the morning with him, go through the day in him, end the night beneath his shadow. The believer who abides in Christ shall never want for grace, nor for the joy that grace brings.
And 'I in you' — that is the wonder. He abides in us! The fountain of all good takes up his dwelling in clay. Walk worthy of so great a guest.