To be or not to be

For a couple of nights in o boot camp, ( a nine month group studying how to minister in the downtown of Lexington), the devotions centered around being versus doing. In John 15, Jesus makes it clear that any fruit that any of us bears is due to his work and life through us. "I am the vine and you are the branches...apart from me you can do nothing." It seems that our efforts alone, won't get it done, at least in terms of lasting (everlasting) results.

How hard this is to learn. (It almost sounds 'un-American.') There's nothing wrong with working hard. (The Apostle Paul said, 'he worked more than any of the disciples.) However, it's where we draw our strength that really matters.

What does all this have to do with blogging about my own life these days. I guess it's certainly to do with the fact that as we age, let alone become ill, we have to come to grips more and more with, " not my strength but yours, Lord." (And that is not a bad thing.) The fact is that we are at this juncture learning more about trusting in Someone elses power to carry us. ( A good thing.)

I think God surely cares as much about our being as our doing...and can use us in some new, even more fruitful ways, when we have to lean hard on Him.