The Branch is Enough

The trouble is…
I don’t always want to just be the branch.

In my not-so-good moments, I want to be the branch. And the vine. And the support that holds the vine. And the fruit. And the sunshine that nourishes it all.

There is this unwillingness to just play my role that peaks out of my soul every once in awhile. I can get so afraid that the branch won’t bear fruit (or the prayers won’t get answered in my timeframe, or the situation won’t change the way I think is best, etc.)…

…That I feel the need to step in and try and take care of it all by myself. Change it. Fix it. Make it happen. {It is tough to be dependent on someone else, isn’t it? To know that twinge or weight of feeling helpless?}

Yet it really is so simple…
Remain in Jesus; let Him remain in me; and the fruit/answer/solution will come.  (John 15:5)

I am called to Remain.

And then I read this heart-squeezing sentence in the book Prayer, written by my Norwegian friend, O. Hallesby. {He’s not really my friend…he died in 1961…but anyone who can write so beautifully and simply about prayer and is from Norway…well, he’s my friend.}

Here’s what he wrote:

Our helplessness has now become
the quiet, sustaining power of our prayer life.

Yes, yes, yes.

My place as the Branch is a helpless place, dependent on the Vine for everything.

And O. reminded me that it is in that helplessness that my prayer life grows.
And that’s what my heart longs for.

This evening I am reminded that my helplessness is a good thing.
I need to learn to sit in it.

I was created to be the branch and Remain.
Good things will come from that.

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