"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5
We now abide in Christ, which means we now dwell in Him, we live in Him, and we remain one with Him, and Jesus now dwells in, lives in, and remains one with us. Consider the branch of a vine, with the vine it is everything and without the vine it produces nothing and dies. The branch bears the fruit; the vine gives the branch the life and the ability to, and the branch can only bear the fruit of the vine that it is one with. The branch gives the vine life, energy, and purpose. A vine without any branches is worthless. Stop and think about that for a minute. God created us in His own image, in order to have fellowship with us, to have companionship with us, to be one with us, and to love us and to be loved by us. The Word of God boldly proclaims that Jesus ever lives to make intercession for us, "Wherein He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25 Jesus lives to serve us, as a vine lives to serve the branches that are united with it. Parents will know what I am saying here. Can God survive without us, absolutely He can, but that isn’t His desire! His desire is to spend eternity with us and to have continual unbroken fellowship with us. God’s desire is to be glorified in us! “And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and I am glorified in them.” John 17:10
We are so precious to our Father and through the power of Christ He can have the desire of His heart fulfilled and do more through us than we can ask, pray for, or think of! This is what it means to have Jesus as Lord!
We now abide in Christ, which means we now dwell in Him, we live in Him, and we remain one with Him, and Jesus now dwells in, lives in, and remains one with us. Consider the branch of a vine, with the vine it is everything and without the vine it produces nothing and dies. The branch bears the fruit; the vine gives the branch the life and the ability to, and the branch can only bear the fruit of the vine that it is one with. The branch gives the vine life, energy, and purpose. A vine without any branches is worthless. Stop and think about that for a minute. God created us in His own image, in order to have fellowship with us, to have companionship with us, to be one with us, and to love us and to be loved by us. The Word of God boldly proclaims that Jesus ever lives to make intercession for us, "Wherein He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25 Jesus lives to serve us, as a vine lives to serve the branches that are united with it. Parents will know what I am saying here. Can God survive without us, absolutely He can, but that isn’t His desire! His desire is to spend eternity with us and to have continual unbroken fellowship with us. God’s desire is to be glorified in us! “And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and I am glorified in them.” John 17:10
We are so precious to our Father and through the power of Christ He can have the desire of His heart fulfilled and do more through us than we can ask, pray for, or think of! This is what it means to have Jesus as Lord!
1 comment:
A very beautiful post.
Happy Easter.
God Bless.
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