Madison came to me this afternoon with this bud from a plant in our back yard. When her friend was over, a week or so ago, Madison said she picked it and gave it to her. She said her friend "forgot the flower in her room" while they were playing and she went home without it. Madison was very upset (she's a rather dramatic three year old if you can just imagine) about her friend leaving the flower and that it had died. I told her: "When you pick a flower away from the big plant, it dies because it does not have anything to live off of."
Then the Lord spoke to me. Like, really spoke to me. I immediately stopped after saying that to her and thought deeply... Wow. If we succumb to the the things of this world that are not of Jesus and stray away from what we are created for and what we have already found and have known in Christ, we will eventually, spiritually 'die,' even if only for a moment... or for a period longer than we desire sometimes. When we get out of our routine of seeking God, we are easily wrapped up in things of this world and that are not of Jesus and not pleasing to the Kingdom. (Stay with me here. It all makes sense in the end, I promise.) I am so guilty of this. I tend to get wrapped up in my daily school work and weekly deadlines and being mom and wife that I forget- or even choose not to open my bible, even if I know or feel that I desperately need to. Why do I do this? Anyone else with me here? During the thought process of listening to God, I was reminded of the verse in scripture: "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. "I am the vine, you are the beaches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing." -John 15:4-5 Wow. That speaks volumes, doesn't it? It does to me. Phew. I am forever grateful that I cannot be plucked form His hand, even if I am not as obedient as I plan to be at times. Those times that I feel apart from Him by not praying or reading scripture for a period of time, although I am not truly, completely away from Him, I feel that I am and I can tell that I am "doing nothing." When I finally take a step back, slap myself back into shape and pray and have devotion with God, I can see the fruit he allows me to bear. I cannot bear fruit unless I abide in the vine. I must continue to abide in Christ, so I do not spiritually die. Let us not be like the flower that wilted and died once it was pulled away from the larger, greater plant. Let us abide in the vine. Let us bear good fruits because we are intact with that of which is greater than us. Amen.
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