I had one of those days today where I found myself sitting at the table praying to the Lord.
Lord I come to you today with so much on my mind and so many, well thoughts..
Thoughts about...
Tonya, emails, sweeping/mopping, Sarah, Michelle, Dinner tonight, meal planning, dinner tomorrow night with friends, reading, unpacking my groceries, parenting my little ones, Rachel, Erika, Kristi, Praying...Future, past, mine, yours.
This is all I wan to do; Abide. Rest in You. I believe I am. Resting in You. But what does that look like when my load feels so heavy?
You are the Vine and I the branch. If I am clinging to You then all that I bear is Your fruit. But sometimes it feels like my fruit is so heavy that it might cause me to snap. But I don't want to be a branch weighed down and broken by good fruit.
So, I gently begin to pluck off my fruit that You have given me and I lay it at Your feet, This is my offering to You.
Heb 13:15 Through Jesus let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise- the fruit of our lips that confess His Name.
In this offering receive this praise: That I magnify Your name o God, that You would bring fourth fruit from all I do. Because I am in You and You are in me.
we abide
John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do no-thing.
As fruit is taken from my branch the Vine strengthens me and I am readied. Readied because when we abide there is never rest from fruit.
May you abide in God our Father and unload your fruit to make room for the new.
-Michelle
