TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT

Do you remember the colander illustration?

Good morning sir!

Welcome to day 6!  Thanks for hanging in there with me.  There’s a lot more to come!  Let’s start off with this prayer.  “Lord, I want to connect with You today!  Let Your Spirit communicate with me now.  Let us be united with such unity, that ‘out of my heart will flow rivers of living water!’  John 7:38

If our life represents a colander, and, of course, we all want to look good, so we put our colander close to Christ.  So Pastor Paul held the colander over Christ.  And the pitcher of water represents our actions which are being poured into the colander.  We start doing things for Him.  And we are strong, so we do a lot for Him.  We even stop doing bad things.  But if we pause and listen to our life, we acknowledge we feel empty and tired.  So we think, I will do more then.  So we try harder.  We get more disciplined.  But, after time, we again see that nothing has changed.  Why?  Because the colander is still outside of Christ!  Until we submerge our complete self in Him, we will never have the fullness of Christ.  

“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can you, except you abide in Me.  I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in Me, and I in him, the same will bear much fruit: for apart from Me you can do nothing!”  John 15:4,5

Lord, I want You to be my source!  My supply!  My life-giving flow!  For without You, I will be perpetually lost and empty!  I submerge my life into You, like a grain of wheat into the ground and I believe Your promise: “if it dies, it bears much fruit!”  John 12:24 Amen!