• Not Complete In Ourselves

  Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Pentecostal

NOT COMPLETE IN OURSELVES

Hear this from Professor Edward Everett in the 19th century:

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" and the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No, my life is in the trunk." We ask the trunk, and it answers, "No, my life is in the root."

“We ask the root, and it answers, "No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die." So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.