Abiding is all about the most important friendship in your life. In abiding, you seek, long for, thirst for, wait for, see, know, love, hear, and respond to a person! Abiding means more of Him in your activities, thoughts, and desires. Too often in our rush to perform for God, we fail simply to enjoy His company. Yet we were created to be dissatisfied and incomplete with anything less. In Secrets of the Vine, Bruce Wilkinson writes, ‘I made three simple commitments to God: (1) To get up earlier and read my Bible. (2) To write a page in my spiritual journal each day. (3) To seek Him until I found Him. I still remember the first line of my spiritual journal: ‘Dear God, I don’t know what to say to you.’ Each day I would read what I’d written. On every page I saw why my busy Christian life left such a bland taste. I had become an expert at serving God, but remained a novice at being His friend. But I stayed with it. By the middle of the second month, things started to shift. His Presence entered my room. My rambling journal entries gradually began to change as I listened. His passion for me, His purposes for my life began to rise from the pages of my Bible. That was more than 15 years ago. The pleasures of abiding - and the extraordinary benefits - have redefined God’s work through me. I see fruit everywhere I turn. Yet none of it is a result of my working harder.’