John 15:4 (NKJV) 4 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.
Many of us desire to serve God and fulfill His call on our life. But many also have no idea how to do this.
We wonder how to know what God wants us to do. We struggle with figuring it out and feel helpless when we don’t see anything that we would consider significant happening in our lives.
Many times, we watch others and see how God is using them. And we long for that in our own lives.
The truth is that it isn’t as complicated as we usually think it is. God has laid it all out for us in His word. But because it isn’t bright, shiny and exciting we tend to miss it.
In the verse above, Jesus tells us to abide in Him. He then goes on to tell us why; a branch cannot bear fruit if it doesn’t abide in the Vine.
And there we have it, “hidden” right in plain sight!
If we want to fulfill His call on our lives and be used by Him, we have to abide in Him. Unless we abide in Him, we are told plainly that we cannot bear fruit.
The enemy, and even some people, might have us believe that being used by God is complicated and impossible unless we have some special kind of anointing. We can’t be any further from the truth than that.
Simply put, the way to be used by God and live out His call on our lives is to abide in Him; to spend time with Him, get to know Him, learn who He wants us to be and then walk it out.
We can’t let the enemy, or anyone else, deceive us into thinking that being used by God requires some kind of extremely complicated steps. Sometimes the things God has us do can be difficult, but knowing Him isn’t!
Abide in Him. Bear fruit and live out His call on your life. Amen.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
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