SATURDAY - 30TH AUGUST, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
WITHOUT HIM WE CAN DO NOTHING - One Alone Series 006
John 15:5, KJV
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."
"...for without me you can do nothing."
We should keep that in our minds. We shouldn't for once sleep on it or let it slip. A word that's kept at heart can keep you from slipping you know. Psalm 119:9 says, "how can a young man keep his way clean but by taking heed according to your word."
Jesus speaks to His disciples here. He tells them using an agricultural illustration that everyone is familiar with. He says, "I am the vine and you are the branches..." The vine is a fruit producing tree. The vine is the trunk (tree) that carries its associated branches and that's Jesus. However, Jesus says, we are the branches - the members in Him. In another term, the members of His body - the same way any tree grows out branches from its trunk or shoot.
But then, He also reminds them that for them and consequently us to bear fruits, we'll need to abide in Him and He in us. If we do not remain in Christ, if we cut off fellowship [even if it's not yet relationship with Him], we'll be endangering ourselves because we can therefore bring forth no fruits except we abide in Him. Growing and producing fruits of the Spirit only happens in Christ. If you're not born again [haven't come into relationship with Him] or maintain that same relationship, how can you grow until all those come out of you.
Have you seen dissociated branches of a tree bring forth fruits themselves? It never happens. The reason is simple. They are not the part that's planted and firmly established in the earth. So, they can therefore draw up no nourishment or live having been separated. It's this imagery that Jesus wants us to understand as it concerns our relationship and fellowship with Him.
Any Christian that keeps his relationship running with God by constant fellowshipping and exchanges will bear fruits and much fruits for that matter. Do you know why? As he does that, day in, day out in close fellowship, the Lord will lean on him and he on the Lord. The Lord will begin to file him therefore. This filing is a sort of pruning so that the undesirable characters and lifestyles are peeled out of him. This way, he can reveal and manifest Christ likeness and the fruits of the Spirit like no other. In such Christian, you'll see a very mature, Christ centred and led one. He'll have been broken and saved from the passions of the world to be focused on things above though lives in this body and maintains a lifestyle as a man of like passions (but not as a sinner or as a stumbler) that God can't use unhindered. That's why you must mind Jesus' choice of words. He says, "the one who walks with Him in interrelatedness of fellowship or penetration" is the one that'll bear much fruits.
Meaning, it's the one that his profiting of having been with Jesus will easily show or shine before the world. You know there's a verse that says, "...that your profiting may appear before all" (I Tim. 4:15).
If you give attention to walk with Jesus, you'll have that reward. When you're contacted, people will easily see that the cross has crossed your will somewhere. It'll be obvious without raising a voice or an arm that you're yoked with Him.
Without him, we can do nothing! If you believe this, you'll submit to Him so that you can resist the devil.
BIBLE IN A YEAR
Galatians 3; Psalms 141-143
PRAYER: Lord, may I abide.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Galatians 2; Psalms 138-140
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