The Source of All (You Version Daily Refresh)

Look around…

Everything’s been masterfully designed: The skies, the trees, the mountains, the oceans. The animals, the people, the seen, and the unseen. 

You can breathe because you’ve been given lungs, oxygen, and an environment that sustains life. You can move because you’ve been given muscles, tendons, and a brain that instructs your body. You can think, dream, plan, design, create, build—because you’ve been given the desire, ability, and some raw materials.

So if you want to live a life that matters, a life that leaves an eternal legacy, you must stay connected to the source of life. Jesus said it like this, using an illustration that was familiar to His listeners:

“Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭NLT‬‬

When Jesus says, “I am the vine,” He’s making a statement. He’s saying that He is the source—that anything that’s made is because of His life-giving power. 

So if you long for real truth, for genuine wisdom, or to make a lasting difference in this world, stick close to God—because anything worth being or doing starts with Him.

My Thoughts

I have somehow become the one in our household of two who knows the most about technology these days (our sons and daughter are in their own households, so we lost our tech experts). So when my husband came to me upset that his phone had been plugged in all night and had not charged, I put on my investigator cap and went into the bedroom to find out what the problem could be. It didn’t take me long to discover that the phone was indeed attached to the cord, but the cord itself had come out of the outlet, so it wasn’t really attached to anything that would provide power. That was an easy fix and I followed it with a reminder to my husband to check to make sure that the connection is complete.

Our connection to Jesus is not something we need to take for granted, thinking to ourselves, “Well, I was plugged in yesterday, so I should be good to go today.” Life with the Lord doesn’t work that way. We have to stay connected all the time if we expect to receive His power and His wisdom and the fruits of the Spirit that we need to operate properly in a lost world. If you take the batteries out of your flashlight, I don’t care how many times you click the “on” button, the light will not work. Jesus is our energy source, the one who provides the roots for our plants to grow and for us to help others to grow, too. When we take ourselves away from our source, we are left powerless and fruitless. So, check your connection before you venture out into the world. All connected? Prayed up? Fed yourself with God’s Word? Ready, Steady, Go!