John 15
I was enjoying a tasty cluster of grapes the other day.
As I picked one off its stem I realized that all the delicious juice inside had passed through that now dry stem.
Then I thought about the seeds contained in the fruit – seeds which can reproduce hundreds of new plants!
And that dry twig? It once was attached to a vine which pumped every drop of life through it to the cluster of grapes (“two or three gathered together”).
My mind took me to John 15:4-5 where Jesus said,
“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
