18 July 2006

Abide in Me

I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be my disciple.
-John 15:1-8

Have you wondered what it really mean by abiding?

When you throw an empty bottle into the ocean, the bottle is merely abiding in the ocean.
But when you filled the bottle with the ocean water, and throw it into the ocean,
this is where the bottle abide in the ocean and the ocean abide in the bottle...

Dont be an empty bottle. Be filled with the Holy Spirit and abide in the presence of God.