In His Life Through the Father: by Andrew Murray

 I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

John 6:57

What a blessed word we have as our text, to assure us that His life on earth and ours are really like each other: “I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.” If you desire to understand your life in Christ, you have only to contemplate what the Father was for Him, and how He worked in Him. Christ’s life in and through the Father is the image and the measure of what your life in and through the Son may be.

As Christ’s life was a life hidden in God in heaven, so must ours be. When He emptied Himself of His divine glory, He laid aside the free use of His divine attributes. He thus needed, as a man, to live by faith. He needed to wait on the Father for such communications of wisdom and power as it pleased the Father to impart to Him. He was entirely dependent on the Father; His life was hidden in God. Not in virtue of His own independent Godhead, but through the operations of the Holy Spirit, did He speak and act as the Father from time to time taught Him.

Exactly so, must your life be hidden with Christ in God. Christ calls you to a life of faith and dependence, because it is the life He Himself led. He is willing now to live over again His life in you, to teach you also to live in no other way. He knew that the Father was His life, that He lived through the Father, and that the Father supplied His need moment by moment. And now, He assures you that, as He lived through the Father, even so you will live through Him. Let your heart be filled with the thought of this fullness of life, which is prepared for you in Christ, and will be abundantly supplied as you need it.

Do not think of your spiritual life as something that you must watch over and nourish with care and anxiety. Rejoice every day that you need not live on your own strength, but in your Lord Jesus, even as He lived through His Father.