Thou hast said Thou art the Vine, Lord

Thou hast said Thou art the Vine

Lord

And that I’m a branch in Thee

But I do not know the reason

Why I should so barren be.

Bearing fruit is my deep longing

More Thy life to manifest

To Thy throne to bring more glory

That Thy will may be expressed.

But I fail to understand

Lord

What it means—“abide in me

For the more I seek “abiding

”

More I feel I’m not in Thee.

How I feel I’m not abiding;

Though I pray and strongly will

Yet from me Thou seemest distant

And my life is barren still.

Yet Thou art the Vine

Thou saidst it.

And I am a branch in Thee;

When I take Thee as my Savior.

Then this fact is wrought in me.

Now I’m in Thee and I need not

Seek into Thyself to come

For I’m joined to Thee already

With Thy flesh and bones I’m one.

Not to “go in” is the secret.

But that I’m “already in“!

That I ne’er may leave I’d ask Thee.

Not how I may get within.

I am in

already in Thee!

What a place to which I’m brought!

There’s no need for prayer or struggling

God Himself the work has wrought.

Since I’m in

why ask to enter;

O how ignorant I’ve been!

Now with praise and much rejoicing

For Thy Word

I dwell therein.

Now in Thee I rest completely

With myself I gladly part;

Thou art life and Thou art power

All in all to me Thou art.