Does God care where I work? Does God care where I go to school? Does God care where I live? As we ask these questions, we may think God has bigger worries to deal with and because the Bible doesn't tell us exactly were to live, go to school, and go to work, God must not care. Wrong, God absolutely cares!!! God cares because you are there, He cares about you and mankind!!! God wishes that all His children would understand that He cared a great deal for you in order to substitute His Son for your Sins. God doesn't just care about you when you are in your devotional time, at church on Sunday, and at bible study. He cares for you where ever your feet tread. At your job, in your school, and where you live, God cares!!! Just as the branch of a tree is an extension of the trunk of that tree, we being the branches are an extension of the vine. How can God reach the people where you work, go to school or live, through His branches. Christ is to be re-presented to the world in every generation until His glorious return. See there is a difference between "represent" and "re-present". When we wear a cross around our neck, we "represent". When we carry across on our back, we "re-present"!!! Just like the fact that God had to send himself (Jesus Christ) to pay the penalty, only God can present Himself (Holy Spirit) to draw mankind to Him!!!
The reason God cares; "God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us", (Acts 17:27). Our purpose; "For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring", (Acts 17:28). Our whole hearts have to be given to God so that our minds will be conformed to His Will. Understanding the big picture allows us to fulfill Colossians 3:2, "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things". Just like babies who are just learning to walk, the parent goes where the child steps to be sure they do not hurt themselves as they take their first steps. After a time the parent wishes that the child would ask "where do you want me to go", this symbolizes that the child has grown to a maturity and they wish to carry out the Will of the parents. From the first second of our belief, to our last breath, God will always be with us, and His Holy Spirit will always dwell within us according to His Word. He cared then, He cares today, and He will care tomorrow!!! Today, do you accept the truth that you are a branch of the true vine and God cares where you work, go to school, and live, so that the vine will have access in those places, will you "re-present" Him??? 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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