6. My Father is the Vine-grower—
John 15:1 (NRSV) — 1b … My Father is the vine-grower.
Christ ever lived in the spirit of what He once said …
John 5:19 (NRSV) — 19 Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but
only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does
likewise.
Just as a vine is totally dependent upon a vine-grower for
the place where it is to grow, for its fencing in, watering, pruning and
harvesting so Christ felt Himself
entirely dependent on the Father every day for the Wisdom and Strength to do
the Father's Will. As Jesus said in the previous chapter …
John 14:10 "The words
that I say unto you, I speak not from Myself; but the Father abiding in Me does
his works."
This absolute dependence had as its
blessed counterpart the most blessed
confidence that He had nothing to fear—the Father could not disappoint Him.
With such a Vine-grower as His Father, He could enter Death and the Grave—confident
that God would raise Him up. All that Christ is and has, He has, not in
Himself, but from the Father.
As we deepen our understanding of our emerging
Christ-likeness we can see that all we are and have is not of ourselves but of
Him.
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