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As I thought of the vine and the branches, what light the blessed Spirit poured into my soul! How great seemed my mistake in having wished to get this sap, the fulness out of him. I say not only that Jesus would never leave me, but that I was a member of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. The vine now I see, is not the root merely, but all—root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: and Jesus is not only that: he is oil and sunshine, air and showers, and ten thousand time more than we have ever dreamed, wished for or needed. Oh, the joy of seeing this truth!

…It is a wonderful thing to be really one with a risen and exalted Saviour; to be a member of Christ! Think what it involves…

The sweetest part, if one may speak of one part being sweeter than another, is that rest which full identification with Christ brings. I am no longer anxious about anything as I realize this; for he, I know, is able to carry out his will, and his will is mine.

“Oh, Mr Judd,” Taylor said, walking up and down the room as he so often did with his hands behind his back, ‘God has made me a new man! God has made me a new man! I havn’t got to make myself a branch, the Lord Jesus tells me I am a branch. I am part of him, and have just to believe it.”

J. Hudson Taylor—A Man in Christ by Roger Steer, (Wheaton: OMF, 1990) p232f.