What is the Will of the true and living God??? Why am I alive??? What does God want from me??? What is my purpose in this life??? Many questions like these are asked daily by men and women. We want to know what God wants from us and why is my life significant? In the gospel of John, Jesus Christ gives us "The Big Picture". As we read below God wants us to be connected to His Son Jesus Christ, in doing so He is allowed to become the gardener of our lives. See, we cannot have fellowship with the gardener until we connect to the source that will give us life and the connection has to be to the "true vine". Once we connect to the vine, God starts to prune our lives to bare fruit for the world to taste. His purpose is that when others taste the fruit they would choose to connect to the source of the fruit which is the vine. This process brings God glory!!! When the world taste the fruit that comes off our branch we point them to Christ which is the vine, when they connect to the vine, Christ points them to God which is the gardener. They then become grafted in as branches connected to the vine as we were. This is the purpose of your existence, God wants to use you and your life to attract more lives to His Son. He wants every man to choose to be connected to His Son and He wishes to receive the glory from every one of His creations. We are all precious in the sight of God, so much so that He gave His only begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ gave the greatest gift to us which was His life through His sacrifice on the Cross. God wants your whole heart and life!!! Today, connect deeply to the vine and allow the gardener to beautify your life. Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of submitting to the big picture on purpose!!!!!
John 15
The Vine and the Branches
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 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.
5 “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. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
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