#Day142: 22 May 2016, Sunday

CONSISTENCY

Below is taken from todays Sunday Service. The title of the devotion is mine (as Ps. Benaiah did not mention any :))

By: Ps. Benaiah Naresh

John 15: 1-3 - I am the true vine.

If we want to remove weeds from our garden, we need to remove it from it roots. Cutting the weeds will only remove it temporarily and it will grow again.

God wants our lives to be light for t he world. The true audience of our journey in life is not human but God himself. All the things we do may resulting to good (or bad) to human, but the real audience is God.

He is not looking into our results but He is looking into our act, our attitude towards the results.

To achieve a consistency life in God, we to understand:

1. The everlasting love agreement.

• John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser" - Father is not only directing, but actually a worker.
• There is 3rd party in this verse, which is the branch. The duty of a branch is to bear fruits.
• This verse shows a commitment that our God, as the worker, commits to nurture us, to grow us. While our duty is to bear fruits, continuously bear fruits.
• This is a holy partnership. The everlasting love agreement. Forever
• Our part is lean on Him. Always stick our roots to Him, always remember the everlasting love agreement.

2. The process of cleansing.

• Consistency is one of an element of success in life.
• In relationship, at work, study, we need to be always consistent in everything we do.
• A lot of time we tend to forget that God's love is everlasting. That we as branches are good and must bear fruits and God is working to grow us.
• John 15:2-3 - "Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you"
• As we age or when we go through the cleaning process that God is doing for us (through His words), a lot of time we forgot the everlasting love agreement
• We need to always stick our roots to His words!

What most important is not what happen to you, but what happen after what happened to you.

Another day full of blessing.

#fgccmalaysia #uplifting #consistency