Devotional for Tuesday, June 13, 2017
“Without Him We Can Do Nothing”
by Dona Hake
John 15:5 The Voice
“I am the vine, and you are the branches.
If you abide in Me and I in you, you will bear great fruit.
Without Me, you will accomplish nothing.”
Today we are meditating on our Lord our Vine! We are the branches, and without Him we can accomplish not one thing. Think about it… without Him we can do nothing and with Him ALL things are possible! All means all, and that little word with three letters contains big possibilities. Whether we are trying to do things for Him or the things that involve our daily accomplishments, it would do us good to know that we are pulling ALL of our strength and wisdom from His resources.
Yesterday I shared about the light of our Lord. The light of His Word brings us strength and direction. There is only one thing though….we must stay hooked up to Him and be drawing upon Him for that Light to illuminate our path. This summer I have been having fun working with the arbor in our backyard. In the arbor are different pretty potted flowers, a bird feeder and bird bath. I bought two strings of solar lights to string through the arbor and it looks so pretty and magical at night. Last week we had a handful of days in which it rained and it was overcast. It the evening the lights would come on but they were very dim, and they did not last long at all. The solar batteries need that beautiful sunshine to recharge them so when darkness falls the beautiful little lights are illuminated.
We too need to stay connected to Him by fellowship in prayer and reading His Word. As we fellowship with other believers this also strengthens and recharges us as we share what the Lord is doing in our life. Let us remember how important it is in knowing that without Him we can accomplish anything yet by Him the impossible is made possible! Let us abide in Jesus the Vine!