Abiding In The Source

I Am The True Vine (I Am Series, Part 8)

Most of us spend a lot of time trying to produce the right kind of life. We focus on outcomes. Growth. Fruit. We ask whether our faith is working, whether we are doing enough, whether anything meaningful is actually coming from all the effort we are putting in. Jesus starts somewhere else.

In John 15, on the night before His arrest, Jesus gives His disciples an image that reframes how life with God works at its most basic level. He does not begin with activity, discipline, or results. He begins with connection.

When Jesus says, “I am the true vine,” He is not offering encouragement or imagery for reflection. He is making a claim about where life actually comes from and what happens when that connection is lost. Everything else in this teaching flows from that one statement.

If we miss that, we will spend our lives chasing fruit instead of staying connected to the source.