The True Vine

This book is a series of 31 devotions or meditations (“Meditations for a Month”) on John 15:1-16. Murray here uses his style of devotional commentary and expands it to treat each of the verses in sequence. Christ's words – “Abide in Me, and I in You” (John 15:4), epitomizing one of Murray's favorite themes - are at heart of this book, which addresses “the principal temptations and failures of the Christian life”. The answer is shown by the text's constant turning to the person of Christ – his all-sufficiency and faithfulness – exhorting believers to truly abide in the Vine. The prayer offered in the book's preface perhaps summarizes the author's intention best: “May the blessed Lord give the blessing. May He teach us to study the mystery of the Vine in the spirit of worship, waiting for God's own teaching.”