Monday, December 13, 2021 John 15:1-11
Have you ever brought all of the issues of life into one burning focus and you say I have no greater ambition, no greater zeal, no greater desire, no greater responsibility than just to abide in the Lord Jesus Christ? Now, a branch may do some other things, it may curl around the post, it may show some leaves, it may bear some fruit, it may do some other things, but it has one concern and that is to abide in the vine and these other things happen because it has reduced its concern to one concern. That's not going to make you a worse father or a worse mother, a worse business man, it'll make you a better mother, a better father, a better business man, but I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, that you have to come to the place where you say this one thing I do, there is a total ultimate surrender of a branch to the vine. The branch does not exist for anything else; it exists for the vine. You are not your own, you're bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. You belong to him just exactly as a branch belongs to a vine.
Now then, when you start seeing your life in that relationship and when you start abiding in the Lord Jesus Christ that way, you're going to find in your heart a miraculous joy because the joy of Christ which is the life of Christ, it's going to be flowing out of Christ and into you when you make that ultimate surrender. I want to continue this tomorrow with an illustration in the life of F.B. Meyer.
