Abide

I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

JOHN 15:5-6 

 

I like words, if you didn't already know that.  In fact, there are certain phrases that my mind will latch onto from almost every move, television program, or book.  These phrases rattle around my brain (like a handful of ball bearings in a steel drum) eventually becoming part of my regular discourse.  

 

One such phrase is from the movie "The Big Lebowski".  I won't give away the plot, but the phrase my mind latched onto is "The Dude Abides". My mind took this phrase and immediately thought of today's passage.  If we abide with Christ, we will bear much fruit.  As we are into the Lent season, I decided that I'm not going to GIVE UP anything, rather I will seek rehabituation (replacing a negative habit with a positive habit).  I will be seeking to change my habit of trying to do God's job, or at least stop telling Him how I would do His job, and seek to abide with Christ relying on Him instead.

 

This Dude Abides in Christ!