BROKEN-OFF BRANCHES

A few days ago a fierce funnel cloud whirled through our Senior Village.  Many trees were uprooted and damaged. 

This morning, as I walked the dog around our neighborhood, I observed how quickly the leaves on the fallen branches were drying out.  The branches are dying because they've been separated from the tree.

I then was reminded of a few years ago--following a storm--at harvest time, we went apple picking at MacQueen's Orchard.  As we walked in among the trees, we noticed several branches had been torn from the trees and were laying on the ground.  The leaves had dried up and the fruit was decaying on the branches.  The broken branches could no longer bear fruit.  So sad!

When we separate from "The Tree of Life"--we, too, become dry and cease to bear good fruit.  Read what it says in John 15:4-5--

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.  I am the vine, you are the branches.  He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

Verse 16 goes on to say:  You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father, in my name He may give you.

                      Stay CONNECTED, my friends!