Where Do We Get The Stuff To Be Enough

I am the vine.  You are the branches.
Apart from Me you can do nothing.
Jesus

The Divine Essence that gives us life and a sense of God's presence does NOT come because we are the "Vine." Yet it never ceases to amaze me how people treat God, spirituality or religion as if such reality is  some form of appendage to their bodies... as in arms or legs. 

Yet nothing could be further from the truth.  We can no more make God... well -- God, than a branch can produce a vine. We cannot create a God to save us, strengthen us, encourage us, empower us and give us victory over the darkness, calamities or cares of life any more than a light bulb can light a room without connection to its power source.

Brother Paul, formerly called Saul, expresses this relationship of Christ Followers to the Creator:  "In HIM we live and move and breathe and have our being."  Did you get that?  We don't live without the LORD.  We don't move without the LORD.  We don't breathe without the LORD. We don't "BE" without the LORD.

So we get the "Stuff to BE enough" when we surrender all that we have, all that we are, all that we are experiencing (good or bad), and ALL that we hope to be to the ONE who has "The Whole World In His Hands." (The whole Universe for that matter.)...including "you and me brother... you and me sister."

The key to success is simply to decide "I cannot live independent of my Creator."  I need to turn from my law breaking to a Divine nature Partaking, through Jesus who IS Christ... about which Peter spoke.  Then let go and let God. Let God's Divine essence flow through the "Vine" Jesus into the branch ... you.  Yield your victories, defeats, fears, faith, joys, sorrows and day... AND your only guaranteed eternal and everlasting  future  (which is through the Vine, Jesus.)

Or you could choose to be an independent thinker, where you are the god of your own destiny and a shriveled branch not on the "Vine." This is the ultimate in "stinkin thinkin."

So, you can choose life or death.  Come on... choose life: Begin by playing one of the Video clips at the top of this blog.  Play it.  Pray it. Find the life you need.  Find the ability to move in the right direction.  Find the breathing room you need to make good choices. Find the power to FULLY "BE."

Be Blessed 2day ... Especially 2day
SoJourner

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