Bringing About Change

Do you find that it is easy to forget God when life gets busy? And to forget to go to God when things go well? Almost without realizing it, we begin to separate ourselves from the vine. 

Our prayer time is a good thermometer: When we are separating ourselves from the vine, it becomes shorter and shorter until it almost fades. When I go my own way, I forget to pray. 

When I separate myself from Christ, the vine, and invest my energies in something else, I know what is going to happen. I will produce no fruit. At least this is my experience. Eventually, I become like a dry branch with no life.  It doesn’t take much to stay attached to the vine, yet it is hard to put God first.  I don’t need to find more time or eliminate activities but orient my tasks to be unified with God.  When my ultimate motivation is loving God, I will rarely get off track.  I will live in the flow of life, attached to the vine, living as an extension of God’s love. 

Producing abundant fruit brings about a change in this world. 

Lord, it is easy to trust what I can see, feel, and touch but it is wiser to trust you, even if you are hidden from me for now.