Do only as I bid you, follow what I tell you, and be still.
"If you neglect me in any way, or forget me for any other object, now that you have enjoyed my confidence, love, and blessing, I will not abide with you any longer.
"I want all your time and to speak all that is to be said.

You have no right to speak a word--not a word--of your own.

You are not your own.

You have given yourself up to me, and I am all.

I will not leave you unless you leave me first, and even then I shall ever be the nearest to you, but you will not know it.
"I am your Friend; the One who loves you.