Exodus 14:14 says, The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.

Imagine the scene - you’ve just left Egypt; there are scores of you, the Egyptians are overtaking you with their horses and chariots as you are encamped by the sea. You are terrified and you cry out to the Lord and complain that you would have been better had you stayed in Egypt than die in this way.

Revelation 3:20 says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”

“Hold your horses! I’m coming! I’m coming!”

Matthew 7: 1-2 says, “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.”

Since we all have sinned and don’t really enjoy looking at our own sin too closely, it’s easy to measure our judgment in heaping proportions to others.

John 15 says, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

Just as branches are connected to a vine, so we are to abide with our Savior. As a matter of fact, attachment to the Vine is the way we produce fruit.