Christ said, “I am the vine…” (John 15:1), “I am the bread of life” (John 6:35), and “I am the way, the reality, and the life” (John 14:6). These verses show us that Christ is the tree of life – a vine tree, reaching out everywhere, full of the divine life. And we are the […]
loving one another has a lot to do with our bearing fruit, which is our destiny
In John 15:16 the Lord told us that it wasn’t us who chose Him, but He chose us, and He set us to bear fruit – and that our fruit should remain! Our goal and our destiny, as branches in the vine, is to bear fruit! All we need to do is to abide in […]
Apart from Christ we are and we can do nothing! We just need to abide in Him
I was enjoying John 15:4-5 this morning, which says, Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in […]
We are the branches in Christ as the vine (who is the organism of the Triune God)
John 15:1-2 tells us that Christ is the real vine, and the Father is the husbandman. We, the many believers in Christ, are the many branches in the vine – and we are set to go forth and to bear fruit! In this whole universe there is a vine-tree, a universal vine-tree: Christ as the […]
Christ becomes our life in an organic way: by us eating and drinking of Him!
God is life, Christ is life, and the Spirit gives life. The Triune God as life wants to become our life – and He does it in a very subjective and organic way. He doesn’t “force His way in” us, He just presents Himself before us as food (just like He did in the garden of […]
After the blowing as the North Wind, God the Spirit covers us and broods over us
Our normal experience of Christ always starts with a “stormy wind” – as Ezekiel 1:1 says. God as the Spirit blows upon us to wake us up, to move us to repent of our sins, to turn to God, to believe in the Lord Jesus, to give up the world and anything else to follow […]
Eating, drinking, and breathing Christ for the building up of the Body of Christ
Our Christian life, just like our physical life, is being maintained / sustained by our continual supply – we need to daily eat, drink, and breathe in Christ. Christ is our real food, Christ is our real drink (John 6:55; John 6:30-35); He is the manna, He as the Spirit is the living water (John […]