Jeremiah 13-15; John 15

this asking for HELP ....blechhhhh

writing letters and asking for $$$ ......really..............blechhhhhh blechhhhhhh

revealing ever more ugly about me......and now to just not run away from the ugly, not settle into it .....find Your Grace.....and then what....I mean seriously what comes next???



Jeremiah 15: 10-11 Unlucky mother—that you had me as a son, given the unhappy job of indicting the whole country!I've never hurt or harmed a soul, and yet everyone is out to get me. But, God knows, I've done everything I could to help them, prayed for them and against their enemies.I've always been on their side, trying to stave off disaster. God knows how I've tried!



There is alot happening internally as I read about Jeremiah....this here stings because I haven't, I don't...do anything to 'help' them. I diagnose or judge and then attempt my own kind of fix...

still??

I hope not Father...but what stings is what I don't DO....I get MY feelings hurt.....I quit....I run...I make every flippin thing about me.....Jeremiah's frustration is from hearing You and trying....hearing You and suffering the abuse of those who don't because He seeks to be obedient to You.....this is how it always goes, me finding what I don't do or think and then not changing.....

is that true?



John 15: 1-3 "I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of me that doesn't bear grapes. And every branch that is grape-bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more. You are already pruned back by the message I have spoken.
4 "Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me.
5-8 "I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples.



He prunes...He's the farmer, I'm just another branch...BUT connected to the vine there is HOPE.....