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Abide - Meditation #4 on John 15

Abide - Meditation #4 on John 15

Robin Sturm

 

Wait!  

Did Jesus just say that even the branches that are “doing a good job” & bearing fruit will get pruned?!

So either way I’m getting cut?  

How does that offer me any encouragement?  Any comfort?

Abide - Meditation # 3 on John 15

Abide - Meditation # 3 on John 15

Robin Sturm

I’m not too keen on the idea of someone searching my life, rifling through my actions, words, thoughts and intentions.  I’ll share what I want to share thank-you-very-much!  Funny how in a Facebook saturated culture, we’re all about sharing… but really,… we’re all about sharing what we want others to see or think of us. 

And that’s all.

Abide - Meditation #2 on John 15

Abide - Meditation #2 on John 15

Robin Sturm

Meditation #2 on John 15

... He is mysterious and big and wild and gentle and unpredictable and a bit revolutionary and there is so much that must have been confusing to the people who heard His voice.

Yet His purpose was to reveal. 

“I Am the true vine …”

This idea of the “true” vine has always felt like a little speed bump to me.  If Jesus is making a point to identify that He is the “true” vine, then there’s a reason for this distinction.