Words to Grow On

March 10, 2008

My Life Source

by

Margaret Starmes

John 15:5 MSG

    "I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing.     

Driving to work this morning I noticed something that had been missing from my part of the country for quite some time; flowers growing in someone’s yard.  Then my mind flashed back to a memory long since forgotten.  My daughter and our custodian were walking to the Post Office. When she returned she brought me a gift – a flower.  The flower that my 6 year old daughter gave me drooped in her hand. She said, “This is for you mommy, isn’t it pretty!”  Smiling, I took the bright yellow flower from her tiny hand. I realized how bright it looked in the artificial light of the office.  Its beauty was contagious.  With a little water it soon began to stand tall and proud.  Even with these efforts as the day waned on the flower’s life was fleeting. 

Jesus reminded us in John 15:5 that unless we remain in Him we cannot bear fruit.  As the flower could not continue without its life source, we cannot continue without our life source, Jesus Christ.