Being the Branches.

Sorry that I haven't blogged for a couple days!!! If you are anything like me you love to read devotional books. I sat down the other day and started reading the book Always By Melody Carlson. One of the devotionals in there used a few verses from John 15. Here is what I read: I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardner. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must reamin in the vine. Neither can bear fruit unless you remain in me. John 15 1-2, 4.
Now not all of us understand farming terms. Back then most of them had grape vineyards or worked in them so all of that just made a ton of sense to them. Now a days not all of us know about vineyards and grape vines. What God is saying is we are connected to him just like a branch is connected to the rest of the vine. Now God will go through all of us. He knows what we think and how we feel. He knows what our hearts are saying. Us that stay connected to God and bear fruit will be pruned or in other words be cut back and have weight taken off so our branch doesn't eventually break off from the vine. The simplest way that I can put that is that God will NEVER give us more than we can handle. Yes he puts us through hard times but its never gonna be too much. If we hang close and stay connected to God we will always pull through it. He will take the weight and problems off us if we just simply offer them to him in pray. It also says that he will cut off every branch that doesn't bear fruit. Now he isn't gonna just ignore the people that don't try to show their faith in him or believe in him but that just sums up to that those of us who do stay connected will live in enternity with him. Wow. He reminds us to stay with him. He also reminds us that NO branch will be able to bear fruit by itself. That means we won't stay connected with God if we forget about him and put him off in the back of our minds. God already knows everything about you but when you come to him and just say hey this is how I feel it thrills him. You love him back like he loves you and feel like hes the one that you need to tell everything to. Thats what he wants from us. He wants us to come to him with our problems that way he can help us solve them and get through them. You won't get through them without God. Hope you guys are as touched by this as I was. Just remember that God wants to be your best friend. =] Kailee Elaine